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Letter from Sarah Pugh, Germantown, Philad[elphi]a, [Penn.], to Maria Weston Chapman, May 28 / [18]65

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Holograph, signed with initials.Sarah Pugh begins this letter by asking: "Have you any comfort for me other than 'Whatever is---is right'?" She complains of Oliver Johnson's "'airing' of the troubles in our midst." She notes that William Lloyd Garrison has not copied the statements in the Liberator. Pugh says: "The present conductors of the 'Standard' have shown themselves in this case wise & dignified in making no rejoinder, which I must confess I exceedingly dreaded their doing." She wishes to know Maria W. Chapman's views on the controversial issues. Sarah Pugh receieved letters from Mary A. Estlin and Harriet Lupton; their letters were written in Wales.
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  4. Correspondence
  5. Estlin, Mary Anne 1820 1902
  6. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  7. History
  8. Johnson, Oliver 1809 1889
  9. Lupton, Harriet
  10. Massachusetts
  11. National Anti Slavery Standard
  12. Pugh, Sarah 1800 1884
  13. Slaver
  14. United States
  15. Women
  16. Women Abolitionists

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