2009-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/31/2009
Autograph Letter Signed, "Edward W. Clark" 3p. quarto, Boston, Massachusetts, September 24, 1855, with integral leaf addressed to John M. Clapp of Beaufort, North Carolina, and reads in part: "...Mr. Wheelwright is now about making a change in his business. He is going with the Havana trade in company with Mr. Edward McClellan of this city. I shall probably remain with them until I am twenty one years old...You desire information of the proceedings of the anti-slavery society - I do not know but very little of them. I understood one morning last week that some persons had put a gallows in front of Mr. Garrison's door with two ropes upon it. Mr. G. is the Editor of the Liberator one of the most scandalous papers published in the U.S...." About VG. The Liberator was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831. Garrison published weekly issues of The Liberator from Boston continuously for 35 years, from January 1, 1831, to the final issue of January 1, 1866. Although its circulation was only about 3,000, three-quarters of whom were African Americans, it earned nationwide notoriety for its uncompromising advocacy of "immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves" in the United States. Garrison set the tone for the paper in his famous open letter "To the Public" in the first issue. The Liberator faced harsh resistance from several state legislatures: for example, distributors of the paper were subject to a $1,500 ($25,957.20 in 2005 dollars) fine in South Carolina. The Liberator continued for three decades from its founding through the end of the American Civil War. Garrison ended the newspaper's run with a valedictory column at the end of 1865, when the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States.
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