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Incomplete letter from Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, Oxford Terrace, to Maria Weston Chapman, March 12th, [1853?]

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Holograph.The end of this letter is missing. Eliza Lee Cabot Follen tells what is on her mind in regard to a school for colored pupils planned by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. She agrees with Maria Chapman, but considers that "this is Mrs. Stowe's affair" and that she will probably have her own way in any case. Follen is in favor of the school plan and believes that the education of free colored people is a step toward their freedom. She believes Mrs. Maria Chapman is not "quite moonstruck enough" to believe that she can induce Mrs. Stowe to deliver the money raised by her friends "for her to use as she thinks best" into the hands of the American Anti-Slavery Society. She suggests advising Mrs. Stowe to place the money in the hands of the trustees to be used for the education of colored men or women in any school or college in America or Europe to which they can obtain admittance.
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. American Anti Slavery Society
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Boston
  5. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  6. Correspondence
  7. Education
  8. Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot 1787 1860
  9. History
  10. Massachusetts
  11. Slaver
  12. Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811 1896
  13. United States
  14. Women
  15. Women Abolitionists

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