February 16, 1844
Addressed to Rev. Orville Dewey, D.D., Smith responds to a lecture in which Dewey has asserted that emancipated blacks in free states are worse off than the slaves of the south. Smith refutes this claim, and invites a debate.
Boston-based Abolitionist newspaper, published by William Lloyd Garrison, 1831-1865
February 16, 1844
Addressed to Rev. Orville Dewey, D.D., Smith responds to a lecture in which Dewey has asserted that emancipated blacks in free states are worse off than the slaves of the south. Smith refutes this claim, and invites a debate.