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Letter from Mary Ann White Johnson, Sing Sing, [New York], to Maria Weston Chapman, November 24, 1844

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Holograph, signed.Mary Ann White Johnson declines an invitation to a Boston anti-slavery fair. In referring to Sing Sing prison, Johnson says: "I detest the whole prison system, and believe more firmly than ever that such establishments are wholly unnecessary."
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  4. Correspondence
  5. History
  6. Johnson, Mary Ann White 1808 1872
  7. Massachusetts
  8. New York (State)
  9. Prisons
  10. Slaver
  11. United States
  12. Women
  13. Women Abolitionists

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