Catalogue description Letters to George Philips mainly from G[eorge] A[ubrey] Lee, Manchester.

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Reference: DR 198/15
Title: Letters to George Philips mainly from G[eorge] A[ubrey] Lee, Manchester.
Description:

Thomas Cooper, Columbia, South Carolina to [?George Philips] 'My good friend'. Re Abolition debate both in America and Britain "every slave in a southern state is an operative in Great Britain. We cannot work rich southern soil by white free labour, and if you will have Cotton Manufacturers, you must have them based upon slave labour". Remarks on presidential candidates Van Buren, Webster, Calhoun and Clay.
Date: April 1838
Held by: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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