Description: Free Domestic Shipping - Not a reproduction. This is an original item. 2-page letter datelined "51 Notting Hill Square May 4" from Abolitionist Moncure Daniel Conway. "My Dear Sir, A misreport in a London Daily led me into an error in my letter to you concerning the "Hand and Land." Will you if you have published that article, print a little paragraph naming it as an Erration that 19 millions of acres of land in Scotland are given over to due stalking. My true statement should be that '19 millions of acres of land in Scotland are owned by 12 proprietors, and of these 2 millions are devoted to due forests.' I regret the blunder but it was not mine and I hope a paragraph which need not be more than an 'Erration' & need not state its origina, will prevent any serious mistake. Faithfully yours, M.D.Conway." This was bound in an autograph book and there is a line of paper from the book showing on the second page. No thinning of the paper on this item, but the paper shows.Moncure Conway was a Methodist minister, Unitarian minister, abolitionist, free thinker, and prolific writer who the historian John d’Entremont describes as “the most thoroughgoing white male radical produced by the antebellum South.” Born into a prominent Virginia slaveholding family, he nevertheless became an outspoken critic of the South’s “peculiar institution,” anguishing over how to reconcile his background with his antislavery convictions in his younger years. He first openly allied himself with abolitionists in July 1854 in the wake of the capture in Boston, Massachusetts, of fugitive slave Anthony Burns, whom Conway claimed to have known in Virginia. During the American Civil War (1861–1865), Conway accompanied thirty-one of his father’s slaves, all of whom had escaped to Washington, D.C., on a harrowing train ride to freedom in southwestern Ohio. There he established what came to be known as the Conway Colony; many African Americans continue to live in the area and identify their ancestors as Virginia slaves. In addition, Conway traveled in high literary circles, authoring as many seventy published works, including popular book-length arguments against slavery and important biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Paine. OF184 Terms and Conditions: FREE United States of America Postal Service FIRST CLASS MAIL SHIPPING to the United States. Uninsured International, including Canada, shipments are $15.00. If you purchase multiple items and let me send the invoice, I will try to adjust shipping to an incremental level. I prefer PayPal. If you wish to pay by any other means, please message me before buying at and ask permission, which will not be unreasonably withheld. When I send an invoice after you have purchased the item, please immediately remind me that you will be paying by another means.Postal insurance and/or registered mail for loss and/or damage protection will be an extra charge and offered only if specifically requested. If this concerns you, please message me in advance of your purchase. Sometimes I will require this to protect us both. All international shipments that request registered mail (insurance generally unavailable) will be charged a flat $16 for this service. The United States Postal Service has an excellent record with my shipments. I have been a member of the American Philatelic Society since 1978 and have been selling on eBay for years. You will need to work through Sales Tax issues with eBay. Buy with trust and confidence. Thank you for taking the time to view my items and make sure to review the other items in my eBay retail store, especially in this category.
Price: 146.25 USD
Location: Richmond, Virginia
End Time: 2025-01-21T15:21:40.000Z
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