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Letter from Deborah Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, March 21st, 1839, Thursday

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Holograph, signed "D."Deborah Weston is waiting to hear about a possible job opening (as a teacher) for Caroline Weston, in the employ of Mr. Samuel Rodman of New Bedford. She is pleased with the success of the Caroline's business affairs and recalls "those 3 pleasant years in Boston which can't be got away from us." The ladies [of Bristol County?] have sent $10 to Boston. She attributes the difficulty in the way of the New Bedford Anti-Slavery Society to the Quakerism of its president, Joseph Congdon. Deborah comments: "Quakerism unfits a man for action. I think, just as transcendentalism does." Deborah's heart warms to "dear [John A.] Collins." She urges Caroline Weston to begin her journal and to read Sir Charles Grandison [by Samuel Richarson] for inspiration.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Boston
  4. Collins, John A. (John Anderson) 1810 1879
  5. Congdon, Joseph
  6. Correspondence
  7. History
  8. Massachusetts
  9. New Bedford
  10. Slaver
  11. United States
  12. Weston, Caroline 1808 1882
  13. Weston, Deborah B. 1814
  14. Women
  15. Women Abolitionists

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