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Letter from Sarah Moore Grimkè, Belleville, [New Jersey], to Elizabeth Pease Nichol, 1842 February 11

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript contains a purple postmarked stamp that says "Garrison Mss." Card includes description of letters contents.Sarah Moore Grimkè writes to Elizabeth Pease Nichol regarding her apologies for not writing to her because of domestic duties including caring for Charles Stuart & Theodore Grimkè: they "are progressing in wisdom & stature & furnish us every day with food for reflection." She writes that Theodore has been in Washington the last few weeks as he was requested to go by the abolitionist members of Congress "that he might be ready when the subject of slavery was introduced to side them with his research & advice: perhaps no man in the anti-slavery work possesses so much information on all points connected with the subject as Theodore, no one has by patient research & close investigation & deep thinking possessed themselves of rosemary, fact, & such a knowledge of the philosophy of slavery." She writes that the Creole case "has struck terror into the slaveholders and if England sustain her free institutions & refuse to regard human beings as property, this circumstance will do much towards furthering emancipation." She writes of the rights of women, of the Society of Friends and William Bassett, and non-resistance.
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