Letters to G. W. Taylor from Elihu Burritt, 1846-1854

Primarily letters of Burritt to Taylor, occasionally G.W. Taylor appends notes to Burritt's letters. The letters, highlighted below, discuss their common interest in the Free Labor Produce Association whose purpose was to grow and provide such goods as cotton, sugar, rice and coffee both in the United States and abroad using free, not slave, labor and other anti­slavery and peace concerns. Burritt presents these ideas to spread the word and to raise funds in meeting with the Anti­Slavery Society and others in England and elsewhere. He refers to Taylor's newspaper Non-Slaveholder for the spread of information. Burritt established a peace and antislavery publication, begun in 1855, Burritt's Citizen of the World, edited by Burritt and published by Taylor, and there is considerable reference in his letters to it. Upon returning to the U.S., Burritt lectured extensively on emancipation. Letters include: Exeter, Eng., 1846 Sept. 29. [free produce and slavery issues; wants to introduce League of Universal Brotherhood, pledged to abolish war, in England, France and America in which Joseph Sturge joins] In 1884, George W. Taylor noted on this letter [the admirable, but difficult, work of Burritt. Some Friends saw this cause as moving Friends away from common religious union]. London, 1854 Nov. 6. [re ""planting"" some Free Labor colonies in the slave­holding states].