Letter to the parents of David Hoyt from James F. Legate
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Letter to the parents of David Hoyt from James F. Legate

James F. Legate, American, 1829 - 1902 · September 11, 1856

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National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

A handwritten letter offering the condolences of abolitionist James F. Legate to the parents of David Starr Hoyt after Hoyt's murder by pro-slavery forces near Lawrence, Kansas, in August 1856.

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