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Letter from Amos Farnsworth, Groton, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, April 11, 1840

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Holograph, signed with initials.Amos Farnsworth explains the parliamentary procedure involved in an incident at a meeting of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society is apparently considering a move to dissolve itself and reorganize as a New Organization society. Farnsworth comments: "I am thunderstruck at the audacious villainy of the Executive Committee in selling the Emancipator to Leavitt." Farnsworth is not going to England. The Board of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society attempted to dismiss William L. Chaplin. Christian union "is all the go here," while anti-slavery "is not thought of." Dudley Phelps may have "to take a walking ticket." Silas Hawley has been to Littleton, Westford, and Lowell in Massachusetts, where new societies will be formed. Mr. Lord from western New York has arrived; he is to "hold the ground that Hawley wrenches from the enemy." Farnsworth exclaims: "James Birney Pres. of the U.S.! I think if Loring or Garrison had been at the Convention no nomination would have been made."
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Birney, James Gillespie 1792 1857
  3. Boston
  4. Boston Female Anti Slavery Society
  5. Chaplin, William L. (William Lawrence) 1796 1871
  6. Christian Union
  7. Correspondence
  8. Emancipator
  9. Farnsworth, Amos 1788 1861
  10. Hawley, Silas 1815 1883
  11. History
  12. Massachusetts
  13. Phelps, Dudley 1798 1849
  14. Slaver
  15. United States
  16. Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
  17. Women
  18. Women Abolitionists

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