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  1. Polite Letters from the South: The South Reacts to Garrison's The Liberator
    date January 1, 1831 to February 15, 1839map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Anti-slavery, Slavery, Abolition

    “You son of a bitch: If you ever send such papers here again, we will come and give you a good Lynching…” wrote the Lynch Club of Charleston, South Carolina, to newspaper publisher William Lloyd Garrison, “So you had better keep them at home.” This was one of two letters that Garrison published in his paper, The Liberator, on February 15, 1839, sarcastically titled, “Polite Letters from...