Letter from Austin Willey to Lewis Tappan

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A donation letter from Austin Willey on behalf of his Sabbath school pledging support for the Amistad Captives. Willey thanks Lewis Tappan for sending him his bill and asks him to forward 1000 [illegible] from the Congregational Union of Scotland. He includes instructions on how to send them and he hopes Tappan will be able to send James Birney and [illegible] "in the field at once." Willey believes Judge Thomson made a mistake "in requesting the publication of that correspondence in the last [American and Foreign Anti-Slavery] Reporter" and asks that Tappan send copies of the Reporter to a number of people. Willey references the publishing of a prospectus in the Advocate of Freedom.

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Title: Letter from Austin Willey to Lewis Tappan
Author: Willey, Austin, 1806-1896
Addressee: Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873
Date Created: 1840-12-14
Description: A donation letter from Austin Willey on behalf of his Sabbath school pledging support for the Amistad Captives. Willey thanks Lewis Tappan for sending him his bill and asks him to forward 1000 [illegible] from the Congregational Union of Scotland. He includes instructions on how to send them and he hopes Tappan will be able to send James Birney and [illegible] "in the field at once." Willey believes Judge Thomson made a mistake "in requesting the publication of that correspondence in the last [American and Foreign Anti-Slavery] Reporter" and asks that Tappan send copies of the Reporter to a number of people. Willey references the publishing of a prospectus in the Advocate of Freedom.
Topical Subject(s): Amistad (Schooner)
Slave insurrections--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Slave trade--America--History
Correspondence
Name Subject(s): Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857
Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873
Willey, Austin, 1806-1896
Geographical Subject(s): Hallowell (Me.)
New York (N.Y.)
Publisher: Tulane University Digital Library
Amistad Research Center
Language: eng
Identifier (local): ama0317
Extent: Letter, 4 p.
Type of Resource: text
Source: Doc. No. F1-4814, American Missionary Association Archives, Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
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