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CHANNING, WILLIAM HENRY. A.L.S., 6 pages, dated at Liverpool, England, March 22, 1855. Removed from album, affecting inner margins (but not text). . $450.00
Unitarian clergyman, member of Brook Farm, editor of the socialistic The Present, Channing "...was an ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery, opposed the Fugitive Slave Law, and at Rochester was interested in the operation of the 'underground railroad.' He also labored for the emancipation of women and the promotion of temperance. After 1854 the most of his life was spent in England. From October 1854 to October 1857 he was in charge of Renshaw Street Chapel, Liverpool..." --DAB.
Channing expresses his unwillingness to be involved in any of the controversies between various factions of the anti-slavery movement, noting the strength of the slavery oligarchy. Garrison, of course, thought the colonizationists were the first enemy to be overcome. The letter is entirely devoted to anti-slavery issues.