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Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Weymouth, Mas[s.], to Mary Anne Estlin, July 30, 1854

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Holograph, signed with initials.Anne Warren Weston describes the capture of Anthony Burns, a fugitive slave. She thinks that "it was better that the rescue should have failed than that none should have been attempted." She gives an account of the crowds around the courthouse, etc. She describes Mrs. Ann Terry Phillips. She comments on Harriet Beecher Stowe's new book.
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Burns, Anthony 1834 1862
  4. Correspondence
  5. Estlin, Mary Anne 1820 1902
  6. History
  7. Massachusetts
  8. Phillips, Ann Terry Greene 1813 1886
  9. Slaver
  10. Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811 1896
  11. United States
  12. Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
  13. Women
  14. Women Abolitionists

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