Conway P. Wing letter to Prudence M. Wing : manuscript.

Saint Croix, Virgin Islands, 1841 January 11.

1 item (in 1 folder)

English

In English.

Purchased from Between the Covers on the Henry C. Taylor Fund, 2017.

This material is open for research.

Conway P. Wing (1809-1889) was an American minister and abolitionist. In 1840, Wing traveled to Saint Croix for health reasons.

Autograph letter, signed, from Conway P. Wing to his wife, Prudence M. Wing, discussing social conditions and politics in the Danish West Indies. Wing describes seeing enslaved men and women working on a plantation; a Spanish slave ship being seized by the British; and enslaved children being removed from the seized slave ship. Wing also discusses the antislavery movement, including the work of William Lloyd Garrison and the Danish government enacting gradual emancipation in Saint Croix.

February 03, 2022

Conway P. Wing Letter to Prudence M. Wing. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Conway P. Wing Letter to Prudence M. Wing. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Clergy United States 19th century.