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Letter from Maria Weston Chapman to Anne Warren Weston, Saturday afternoon, [1842?]

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Holograph, signed with initials.Maria Weston Chapman is going to enlarge her house and build a lower room. The railroad and marriage law has caused a good deal of discussion. She gives news about William Lloyd Garrison, James Boyle, and others. She discusses Mrs. Lydia Maria Child's editorship of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, and the attack of John A. Collins by Samuel Philbrick for improper accounts. Chapman thinks that she could run the Standard herself. She mentions the George Latimer fugitive slave case.
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Boyle, James
  4. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  5. Child, Lydia Maria 1802 1880
  6. Collins, John A. (John Anderson) 1810 1879
  7. Correspondence
  8. History
  9. Latimer, George
  10. Massachusetts
  11. National Anti Slavery Standard
  12. Slaver
  13. United States
  14. Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
  15. Women
  16. Women Abolitionists

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