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Preferred Citation:

William Poole Letter, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William & Mary.

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Accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in December 2012.

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Scope and Contents

Letter, 15 February 1817, of William Poole, Brandywine, Delaware, to Isaac Hicks of Westbury, New York. Discusses the effect that the abolition of slavery would have on the economy of the United States and England. Also discusses Poole's opposition to slavery and the kidnapping of free African Americans to be put into slavery.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Abolitionists
• Antislavery movements--United States
• Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century--Sources
• Quaker abolitionists
• United States--Abolition--History
• United States--Slavery