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    "title": "Letter from Debora Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, 6 June 1854",
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        "Weston, Debora, 1814-",
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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",
        "Weston, Debora, 1814-",
        "Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882",
        "Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890",
        "Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862",
        "May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871",
        "Stevenson, Miss",
        "Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877",
        "Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885"
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        "Holograph, signed with initials.",
        "Debora Weston begins her letter to Caroline Weston by expressing her anger at \"Loring & Co.\" and others responsible for the arrest of Anthony Burns, a fugitive slave. She discusses the case at length. The operator of T Wharf \"gave permission to the slave catchers without consulting owners & was dismissed Friday night ...\" The other wharfs were denied to the slave catchers. Debora writes: \"The city of Providence has voted not to celebrate the 4th of July, but to toll the bells three times.\" She tells about Edmund Quincy's nephew. Debora said: \"I wish you could have seen Miss Stevenson keeping guard on the side walk [opposite the courthouse].\" \"Anne was obliged to sit on a sofa in a pro-Slavery umbrella store ... Old Sam May's store was in mourning.\"",
        "Also with Call No. Ms.A.9.2 v.28, p.16, is a letter to \"Dear Folks,\" perhaps written by Anne Warren Weston, dated Tuesday, June 5, 1854.",
        "There is also an envelope to Mrs. Henry G. Chapman [also known as Maria Weston Chapman], in Paris, France. It is postmarked from Weymouth, Mass., June 6, 1854."
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