WorkWilliam Ellery Channing
Slavery (Boston: James Munroe, 1835)
William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) · Boston: James Munroe, 1835
Mentioned
Documented 1835
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Letters
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“What says Col. Storrow to the Faneuil hall resolutions, to the Boston Mob, and Dr Channing's new book on slavery.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“CHANNING ON SLAVERY. 'This is a noble work. So refreshing its calm, benign atmosphere, after the pestilence-bringing gales of the day.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred Margaret Fuller engaged critically with William Ellery Channing's 1835 work, Slavery, deeming it 'a noble work' and praising its 'calm, benign atmosphere.' This significant abolitionist text, published in Boston, is identified by Fuller’s section heading in the OCR and her extended commentary.