[Quotation from a letter to Benjamin Lundy]
Contributors: Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1831
Place of publication: [Boston, Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Notes: In the hand of another person. Whereabouts of original manuscript unknown.

William Lloyd Garrison wrote to Benjamin Lundy: "We shall fare on bread and water a long time before we strike our flag. Whether we sink or swim in this new enterprise, we shall remain the unyielding advocates of the poor slave." This quotation is from a letter by William Lloyd Garrison to Benjamin Lundy, January 1831. The complete text of this letter was published in Genius of Universal Emancipation, Feb. 1831, p. 162.