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I trust, in his visit to England, he will be both useful and happy.

"Very truly, your friend and brother, "GERRIT SMITH."

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"Commending Professor Allen to the friends of the colored American citizens who are denied their rights in their own country, and wishing him every success in the object before him,

"I am, respectfully, "Birmingham, 6mo., 28d., 1853. "JOSEPH STURGE."

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"Clapham, August 25th, 1853.

"My dear Sir:--

"Your determination to spend some time in Great Britain, and to employ yourself, as opportunities occur, in giving lectures and delivering addresses upon American topics, including the social position of the free colored population--for which your education and personal experience eminently fit you--has given me sincere pleasure. I trust you will meet with ample encouragement from the friends of Abolition throughout the United Kingdom, to whose sympathy and kindness I would earnestly recommend you, and still more your heroic and most estimable lady.

"Believe me, most truly yours, "Professor W. G. Allen "GEORGE THOMPSON."

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

--Introduction 41

II.--Personalities 42

III.--Nobility and Servility 48

IV.--The Mob 54

V.--Dark Days 63

VI.--Brightening up,--Grand Result 79

VII.--Conclusion 91

A Short Personal Narrative by William G Allen 95

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION

Many persons having suggested that it would greatly subserve the Anti-slavery Cause in this country, to present to the public a concise narrative of my recent narrow escape from death, at the hands of an armed mob in America, a mob armed with tar, feathers, poles, and an empty barrel spiked with shingle nails, together with the reasons which induced that mob, I propose to give it. I cannot promise however, to write such

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