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Letter from Debora Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Lucia Weston, January 8th [through 9th], 1839
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Letter from Debora Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Lucia Weston, January 8th [through 9th], 1839
description
Holograph, signed with initials.
date
["[January 8, 1839–January 9, 1839]"]
year
1839
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English
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3132654
creators
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861
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Boston Public Library
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Anti-Slavery Collection
subjects
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861
Bent, N. T. (Nathaniel Tucker), 1810-1856
Torrey, Charles T. (Charles Turner), 1813-1846
Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster), 1805-1887
American Anti-Slavery Society
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Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
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United States
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Massachusetts
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Suffolk
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Boston
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1 leaf (2 p.) ; 10 x 8 1/8 in.
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notes
Holograph, signed with initials.
Debora Weston went to Cambridge, Mass., and saw Mrs. Nathaniel T. Bent, who has become the mother of a fine boy. She discusses plans for coming to Weymouth. She comments on the crisis in the anti-slavery world. Debora writes: "The peelers are going to make a desperate push to get out [i.e. oust?] the Liberator...[Amos A.] Phelps is as thin as a shark & works like a dog... It is thought an attempt will be made to get out the whole board." The New York Society has appointed Henry B. Stanton as agent for all the New England states, "so I hope Mass. will be rid of him." The proposed "little paper of [Charles T.] Torrey will be brought up," and Debora expects a great battle to be fought.
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