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Letter from Edward Morris Davis, Philad[elphia], [Penn.], to Maria Weston Chapman, 2 m[onth] 10th [day] 1846

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Holograph, signed.Edward Morris Davis tells of the success of his anti-slavery paper [the Pennsylvania Freeman?]. Davis asks: "What are your prospects for the Standard in May? ...I have taken my passage for Liverpool in a Boston steamer ..." Davis asks for letters of introduction. He has heard that the Third Party group intends to employ G[eorge] Bradburn as the editor of their paper. He discusses their difficulties. He heard that the number of subscribers to the National Anti-Slavery Standard had decreased greatly and comments on the reduced circulation of anti-slavery newspapers in general. He gives his views on the future of New Organization newspapers. He is very much interested in the Standard.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Boston
  4. Bradburn, George 1806 1880
  5. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  6. Correspondence
  7. Davis, Edward Morris 1811 1887
  8. History
  9. Massachusetts
  10. National Anti Slavery Standard
  11. Newspapers
  12. Slaver
  13. United States
  14. Women
  15. Women Abolitionists

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