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Autograph letter signed to John Conder
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- 1839 (Creation)
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"Writing from Birmingham, 21 September 1839 the Quaker abolitionist Joseph Sturge (1793-1859), founder in 1839 of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, thanks the writer and bookseller Josiah Conder (1789-1855), editor of the Evangelical newspaper The Patriot, for reprinting extracts from the American abolitionist periodical The Emancipator. Sturge then discusses the visit to England of the Jamaican Magistrate Richard Chamberlaine, who he had met in 1837 during his tour of the West Indies: 'Chamberlaine is not a missionary but a stipendiary magis-trate, he has been at my home at the time of the association meeting...when he returns to London I will try to bring you together – he is a man of colour & never been in England before. You will I think be much pleased with him...' Sturge, occupied at this time in opposing the apprenticeship system in the Caribbean, makes reference also to the organisation of various meetings." –description from Samuel Gedge, bookseller