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    "title": "Letter from Debora Weston, New Bedford no [sic] Boston, 39 Summer Street, to Caroline Weston, Sat. morn[ing], [June 1, 1844]",
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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",
        "Secession",
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        "Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882",
        "Colver, Nathaniel, 1794-1870",
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        "Weston, R. Warren (Richard Warren), 1819-1873",
        "White, William Abijah, 1818-1856",
        "American Anti-Slavery Society",
        "Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810-1878",
        "Bradburn, George, 1806-1880"
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        "Holograph, signed with initials.",
        "Debora Weston saw the temperance procession. Abby Kelley and Mrs. Eliza C. Follen heard William White make a good speech. Following his speech, Nathaniel Colver said that \"moral suasion would do nothing for a drunkard.\" The Hutchinsons sang superbly, and Gov. G.N. Briggs presented a silver cup to Holbrook. Debora describes the proceedings and excitements of the New England Anti-Slavery Convention at Marlboro Chapel, where a vote was taken for disunion. Debora said: \"[George] Bradburn was in a quiet way as ugly as Cain.\" William White \"tried to clog the wheels in a good humoured way.\" The disunion vote was 247 to 23 in favor of it. A speech by Frederick Douglass was interrupted by an insolent stranger. In the evening, Charles C. Burleigh, at the convention, presented a banner to William L. Garrison for the American Anti-Slavery Society. \"All the debts of the A[merican] Soc[iety] will be paid next week part of the money borrowed.\" Debora tells about letters received, including one from Warren Weston from Singapore.",
        "A postscript states that the Southwicks, Maria White, and James Russell Lowell voted \"no\" [for secession?]."
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