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Emma Parker writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to her disappointment at not being able to attend the national anti-slavery convention "with feelings of intense interest" due to complications in traveling to New York. She was looking forward to meeting Maria along with William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Clarke Wright, and Lydia Marie Child. She expresses her loyalty to the Massachusetts anti-slavery society and the Boston female anti-slavery society. She writes, "there has been a good degree of A[nti].S[lavery]. feeling awakened in this place, but it was effectually hushed to sleep before it was matured into action, this was effected by Clerical policy." She writes that although non resistance meets with opposition, it has taken "root in some hearts." She wishes Wright could speak at Cavendish.
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Letter from Emma Parker, Cavendish, [Vermont], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1840 May 14
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Letter from Emma Parker, Cavendish, [Vermont], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1840 May 14
description
Emma Parker writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to her disappointment at not being able to attend the national anti-slavery convention "with feelings of intense interest" due to complications in traveling to New York. She was looking forward to meeting Maria along with William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Clarke Wright, and Lydia Marie Child. She expresses her loyalty to the Massachusetts anti-slavery society and the Boston female anti-slavery society. She writes, "there has been a good degree of A[nti].S[lavery]. feeling awakened in this place, but it was effectually hushed to sleep before it was matured into action, this was effected by Clerical policy." She writes that although non resistance meets with opposition, it has taken "root in some hearts." She wishes Wright could speak at Cavendish.
date
["May 14, 1840"]
year
1840
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no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
5977459
creators
Parker, Emma
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Anti-Slavery Collection
subjects
Women abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Nonviolence--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Meetings
Christianity
Nonviolence
Slavery and the church--United States
Boston Female Anti-slavery Society
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
Parker, Emma
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
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1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 cm.
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Holograph, signed.
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Cavendish, [Vermont]
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2z110t81d
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