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Institution:
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George Mason University
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Collection Name:
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George Mason Letters To John Augustine Washington Iii
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Category:
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Letters & Correspondance
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Link to collection:
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http://images.gmu.edu/luna/servlet/s/44ogum
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Description:
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The collection consists of two letters from George Mason to John Augustine Washington III in fall 1859. Both letters were written in the weeks after John Brown attempted to begin an insurrection of enslaved African-Americans at Harper's Ferry in what is now West Virginia.
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