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Introduction: Edward Coles Writes to Thomas Jefferson In 1814 a young man took up his pen and nervously wrote to a living legend, none other than Thomas Jefferson, who by then had settled into retirement at Monticello after five decades of distinguished public service. “I never took up my pen with more hesitation or felt more embarrassment than I now do in addressing you on the subject of ...
18 de may. de 2011 · Edward Coles was a wealthy heir to a central Virginia plantation, an ardent emancipator, the second governor of Illinois, the loyal personal secretary to President James Madison, and a close antislavery associate of Thomas Jefferson.
Edward Coles railed against slavery throughout his life. Born in Virginia and inheritor of a plantation with slaves, Coles put his plantation up for sale in 1809 and took the slaves with him so as to set them free once he reached non-slave territory. The sale took many years to complete. In 1819 he boarded his sixteen slaves on two flatboats ...
This group was started for me to reunite with my classmates who attended Edward Coles School and graduated in 1985. I am Troy Ashton, and i moved from Chicago at the end of my 7th grade year at Coles School. I would really like to catch up with old friends of my class and see what they are up to now. There are high school reunions, but when ...
7 de mar. de 2002 · From Edward Coles. Washington July 31st 1814. Dear Sir. I never took up my pen with more hesitation or felt more embarrassment than I now do in addressing you on the subject of this letter. The fear of appearing presumptuous distresses me, and would deter me from venturing thus to call your attention to a subject of such magnitude, and so beset ...
2 de mar. de 2002 · Not recorded in SJL. Enclosure: TJ to John Breck Treat, 16 Feb. 1810. Edward Coles (1786–1868), a relative of Dolley Madison born at Enniscorthy in Albemarle County, was educated at Hampden-Sydney College and the College of William and Mary. He inherited a plantation of nearly eight hundred acres and twenty slaves from his father in 1808.
29 de jul. de 2020 · Built in 1928, the art deco monument to Coles is a flat panel of cut Indiana limestone, 30 feet wide and 12 feet tall, with a bronze bas-relief of the abolitionist statesman in the middle. Beneath Coles’s image is the inscription: “Commemorating the career of EDWARD COLES who by steadfastness and courage in 1823 and 1824 kept slavery out of ...
