Letter from Amos Farnsworth, Groton, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, 30 Aug. 1838
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Holograph.Amos Farnsworth gives an account of the quarterly (anti-slavery) meeting in Littleton. They had a good supply of speakers. Amos Farnsworth complains about Henry Brewster Stanton, who pledged himself to attend the meeting, but did not come. Farnsworth comments about Stanton: "He has deceived me once too many." He reports "[Oliver?] Johnson defended womens rights fully. Indeed W [James Trask Woodbury?] was very willing to draw off from the battlefield." The Rev. Horace Moulton, a Methodist minister who was for many years an overseer of slaves in Georgia and South Carolina, gave an account of the treatment of the slaves. In reply to Woodbury, Alanson St. Clair admitted that "Garrison had often done very wrong." Amos Farnsworth considers this remark uncalled for. Amos Farnsworth describes the speech given by Mr. Bradford of Westford Academy.
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- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Bradford, Mr
- Correspondence
- Farnsworth, Amos 1788 1861
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Johnson, Oliver 1809 1889
- Massachusetts
- Moulton, Horace 1799 1873
- Slaver
- St. Clair, Alanson
- Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster) 1805 1887
- United States
- Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
- Women
- Women Abolitionists
- Woodbury, James Trask 1803 1861