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        "Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century",
        "Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence",
        "Antislavery movements--United States",
        "Women abolitionists--United States",
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        "Lane, Lunsford, 1803-approximately 1863",
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        "Normanby, Constantine Henry Phipps, Marquess of, 1797-1863",
        "Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897",
        "Cabot, Anna"
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        "Holograph, signed with initials.",
        "Anne W. Weston describes cloaks made for her sisters and herself. She dwells on the \"iniquity\" of Mr. Perkins, who refused his pulpit to Cyrus Burleigh and (John M.) Spear. He did, however, take up a collection for Lunsford Lane on Sunday afternoon. In the evening, while eight people attended Jonas Perkins' prayer meeting, the Universalist House was \"thronged to suffocation.\" There, Lunsford Lane told his story and answered questions \"in a manner admirably calculated to produce a good effect for the cause.\" The total collection amounted to $64. Anne reports on the health of the Chapmans at Chauncy Place, and on business matters. She encloses a letter from E. Pease. \"Boz arrived with his wife & was last night at the theatre ... Nickelby was acted & then a sort of masque where all Dicken's principal characters appeared. They gave Dickens three times three ...\" The Earl of Mulgrave is here, too. \"He is sort of anti slavery having behaved well as Gov. of Jamaica.\" Anna Cabot is engaged to a son of Giles Lodge.",
        "Lunsford Lane, who Anne refers to in her letter, was a slave from North Carolina who had purchased his own freedom and was trying to buy his family out of slavery. For more information, see the book: Lunsford Lane; or, Another Helper from North Carolina. By the Rev. William G. Hawkins, Boston, 1863."
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