From:
Wendell Phillips Garrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 8
Summary:
Sends CD his version for children of Journal of researches [What Mr Darwin saw].
During the last illness of his father, William Lloyd Garrison, WPG showed him CD’s passages on slavery.
"In combating the enemies of freedom in this country he [W. L. Garrison] emancipated himself from the theology the destruction of which is perhaps your highest title to the honor of your own time and the blessings of posterity."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
