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Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Francis Jackson Garrison, Aug. 9th, 1881
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7s75fp87g
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title
Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Francis Jackson Garrison, Aug. 9th, 1881
description
Holograph.
date
["August 9, 1881"]
year
1881
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no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3133173
creators
Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
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
Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916
Boston Female Anti-slavery Society
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Right and wrong in Boston
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Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
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Correspondence
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Text
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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 (4 p.) ; 7 x 4 1/2 in.
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-71.05
notes
Holograph.
Maria Weston Chapman is sending this letter in response to a letter she recieved from [Francis Jackson] Garrison. She gives the dates of the publication of "Right and Wrong in Boston." No. 1 is "a concise statement of events previous & subsequent to the annual meeting of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society" with the motto from Fenelon: "Si je vous parle fortement, n'en soyez pas etonne; c'est que la verite est libre et forte." She explains the delayed publication date, due to the reluctance of the booksellers. When Francis J. Garrison finds a copy of this number, Maria Chapman will "thrust in a few notes, -- not needed at the time; but now, by years, made necessary." She explains the background of No. 1; society, state, and church all being in bonds of slavery, it seemed "needful to begin first with Society ...& this was the aim of No. 1." She recollects the misgivings of Mr. [Amos Augustus] Phelps and Mary S. Parker, and the final adoption of the publication plan by the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Harriet Martineau "passed through the skirts of the mob--unaware of its nature at the time" [1835]. Chapman wrote: "The members of Dr. Channing's congregation were the mob." She tells an anecdote of a Mr. Rhodes, who kept a hat store near the scene of the mob, saying that in thirty years he had never seen so many good hats before.
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Weymouth, [Mass.]
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