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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Elihu Burritt correspondence, 1859</title>
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    <namePart>Burritt, Elihu</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1810-1879</namePart>
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  <abstract>ALS (New Britain, Conn.; 1859 July 21) from Burritt concerning a proposal to abolish slavery by providing compensation to slaveholders for the emancipation of their slaves.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Reformer, publisher, and author.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Slaveholders</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Slavery</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Slaves</topic>
    <topic>Emancipation</topic>
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