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Letter from James Haughton, 35 Eccles St., Dublin, [Ireland], to Maria Weston Chapman, 31st Oct. 1845

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Holograph, signed.James Haughton compares American anti-slavery with trans-Atlantic anti-slavery: "We who work with you at this side [of] the water, have no such opposition to encounter; every blow we strike against the monster--Slavery--brings us honor & credit, with the people." He admits that some of the so-called better classes "look upon us as enthusiasts, & I am even considered by some a little light in the head." In Ireland, "we have to work upon apathetic & indifferent hearts," and so their zeal would probably cool if it were not "warmed by your devotion to the cause of humanity."
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Boston
  4. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  5. Correspondence
  6. Haughton, James 1795 1873
  7. History
  8. Ireland
  9. Massachusetts
  10. Slaver
  11. United States
  12. Women
  13. Women Abolitionists

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