Wolff to Leeser Regarding Printing and Slave Emancipation in the Danish West Indies, 1848

Metadata

Wolff to Leeser Regarding Printing and Slave Emancipation in the Danish West Indies, 1848

Description

Letter from Aaron Wolff in St. Thomas to Isaac Leeser in Philadelphia, dated July 5, 1848. Wolff requests Leeser print 500 copies of a manuscript of laws for a congregation. He also describes the emancipation of slaves in the Danish colonies, noting peaceful celebrations in St. Thomas but disturbances and property destruction in St. Croix following the emancipation on June 3rd.

Subjects

Emancipation of slaves Danish West Indies St. Croix

Other Details

Type: Letter

Identifier: LSDCBx1FF5_20

Collection: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries

People

Sender: Aaron Wolff

Recipient: Isaac Leeser

Dates

Gregorian: July 05, 1848

Hebrew: ד׳ בְּתַמּוּז תר״ח

Places

From: Saint Thomas

To: Philadelphia

Language

English

Citation

Please cite this item as:

Aaron Wolff, Isaac Leeser. “Letter from Aaron Wolff to Isaac Leeser;July 05, 1848.” (July 05, 1848). The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries. Accessed at https://leeser.judaicadhpenn.org/item/lsdcbx1ff5_20 .