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Title
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John McDonogh to Walter Lowrie
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Description
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"Among my Black family, I have two youths, of great promise, of the age of nineteen years, who are remarkable at that early period of life, for their intelligence, knowledge, and solidity of judgement, their pious, and tractable dispositions, whom I offer to your society, to be given a Religious Education, preparatory to their becoming missionaries of the Gospel in the Land of their forefathers."
John McDonogh agrees to pay the expenses of their passage and clothing, as well as the sum of $100.00 a year.
McDonogh acknowledges that laws do not permit owners to emancipate slaves before they have turned 30 years old, and even then, only in particular cases. He asks Lowrie whether there will be any difficulty sending David and Washington into Pennsylvania as slaves.
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Original letter at the PRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Philadelphia)
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Identifier
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2
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Date
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1838-02-01 00:00:00
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Subject
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John McDonogh to Walter Lowrie regarding sending David and Washington north.
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Creator
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John
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Format
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