Letter from Ellis Gray Loring to Lewis Tappan

Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803-1858

Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873

1841-02-27

A donation letter from Ellis Gray Loring on behalf of various individuals pledging support for the Amistad Captives. In his letter, Loring writes that he has settled with Septimus Stocking for Arthur Tappan & Company and has appended a copy of a February 19, 1841, letter from Nathaniel J. Bowditch. Bowditch, who writes that he has read documents related the Amistad Case and is gratified to know that John Quincy Adams is acting as counsel, sends ten dollars as a donation.

Amistad (Schooner)
Slave insurrections--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Slave trade--America--History
Correspondence

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803-1858
Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873

Boston (Ma.)
New York (N.Y.)

Tulane University Digital Library
Amistad Research Center

eng

ama0423

Letter, 4 p.

text

Doc. No. F1-4914, American Missionary Association Archives, Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

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