Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lydia White of Philadelphia Subject The topic of the resource Original letter from 5.9.1831 available <a href="https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z10zf53n">here</a>. Description An account of the resource Among the females who are interesting themselves in behalf of the poor slaves, LYDIA WHITE of Philadelphia, a member of the Society of Friends, deserves high commendation. She has been very zealous in procuring the manufacture of domestic goods from cotton raised by free labor, and during the past year has kept a Free Dry Goods Stores at No. 86, North Fifth-street. Those who wish to examine patterns of her goods are requested to call at this office. We have lately received a letter from her, from which we take the following extracts: 'I am glad to hear that the people of Boston and New-Hampshire are becoming uneasy with using the produce of slave slabor, which I have long had to view as the main staple of slavery. Much do I regret that we have not a fully supply and a better assortment of domestic cotton goods manufactured of the material which is cultivated by free labor; for I believe if this was the case, and stores were opened in different sections of the Union by conscientious persons, whose concern would be more to promote justice and accommodate the necessary wants of their fellow creatures, than to accumulate wealth for themselves, they would have a tendency to greatly increase the demand for the produce of remunerated labor. 'I think I may safely say, that the concern to bear a testimony against African slavery by abstinence is gaining and spreading far and wide over our country. Orders are repeatedly sent to me for free goods from different parts of several States, viz. Vermont, Rhode-Island, New-York, Ohio, Indiana, Delaware, and I think Maryland and Virginia; and frequently new customers call on me for the same from Pennsylvania and New-Jersey. 'Two days since, I purchased a small lot of free Cotton from North Carolina, which I shall endeavor to have manufactured to the best attainable advantage, in quality, variety and price. I am increasingly desirous to do what I can in this way, to encourage the conscientious in abstinence from the products of the slaves' labor: to me it seems very important for us (the advocates of liberty and justice) to be steadfast in this particular. 'When I mediate on the subject, the query arises, what avails the abundant profession of religion which is made in this day, if it do not lead us practically to bear testimony against the greatest of evils, cruelly oppressing and degrading our fellow-creatures? Surely the truth leads out of all this.' Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Liberator 1:22, p. 3 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5.28.1831