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Letter from Deborah Weston, Chauncy Pl[ace], [Boston, Mass.], to Henry Grafton Chapman and Maria Weston Chapman, Feb. 7th, 1841

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Holograph, signed.In this letter, Deborah Weston said: "I have devoted the energies of my powerful mind to the arduous task of teaching little Henry [Chapman] to read." She reports on the donations from Nantucket for the newspaper, the [National Anti-Slavery] Standard. She comments: "Have no fear for the Standard." She relays the opinion of an acquaintance "who entreated that you would not come back too soon." Captain Howard thought it would be perfectly safe for Henry and Maria Chapman to stay in Haiti through June.
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Chapman, Henry Grafton 1804 1842
  4. Chapman, Henry Grafton 1833 1883
  5. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  6. Correspondence
  7. Description And Travel
  8. Haiti
  9. History
  10. Massachusetts
  11. National Anti Slavery Standard
  12. Slaver
  13. United States
  14. Weston, Deborah B. 1814
  15. Women
  16. Women Abolitionists

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