[Letter to] My dear Sir
Contributors: Benson, Henry Egbert, 1814-1837, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1831
Place of publication: Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Riots; Abolitionists; Slave insurrections; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

William Lloyd Garrison asks several questions about the riot in Providence between sailors and colored people. Garrison writes: "These are perilous times, my dear friend, especially for the people of color. So infuriated are the whites against them, since the Virginia and North Carolina insurrections, that the most trifling causes may lead to a war of extermination."

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.1, no.55.