Letter from Elizabeth Pease Nichol, Dedham, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1840 April 29
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Elizabeth Pease Nichol writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to being grieved that the Friends in America, in respect to the African race, are "deviating so widely from the principles & spirit they profes. She regrets having to withold her name from a pamphlet in circulation among the English abolitionists, which contains portions of a letter from William Bassett. She has been censured by high-standing members of her society, but is happy to bear reproach. She writes, "I will send thee the next number also, as it will contain..both sides the question--I remain stedfast in the conviction that the course I have pursued was such as the interests of Truth, of Justice, & of the Slave, no less than the welfare of our own body demanded." She writes that the next yearly meeting will be held on the 20th of next month. She writes that some English ministers have encouraged "Friends in America in their exclusiveness." She writes of British India and George Thompson's arrival.
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- Antislavery Movements
- Bassett, William 1803 1871
- British
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Christianity
- Correspondence
- Great Britain
- History
- India
- Massachusetts Anti Slavery Society
- Meetings
- Newspapers
- Nichol, Elizabeth Pease 1807 1897
- Publishers And Publishing
- Publishing
- Religious Aspects
- Slaver
- Societies
- Societies, Etc
- Thompson, George 1804 1878
- United States
- Women
- Women Abolitionists
- Women Social Reformers