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Letter from Maria Weston Chapman to Elizur Wright, [Not after 15 Sept. 1837]

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Holograph, signed with initials.This manuscript is most likely a rough draft of a letter by Maria Weston Chapman to Elizur Wright, since passages have been crossed out. Maria Weston Chapman expresses her deep conviction of the "absolute necessity of holding by Garrison with a giant-grasp at this moment." She reproaches the New York abolitionists for not noticing the conduct of those Iscariots, James Trask Woodbury, and Charles Fitch. Chapman writes: "It cannot be surely that you fear to be called a 'manworshipper' or a 'Garrisonite.' It cannot be that you are deceived by the black hearted ministry of our country ..." She is shocked that they are leaving William Lloyd Garrison and Amos A. Phelps "to attack the theological demon alone!" She praises Garrison and considers his letter to Woodbury "a thing that will be hereafter cited as an instance of moral independence--truly wonderful." A sign of danger from temptations in New York "bursts upon" Maria W. Chapman.See Call No. Ms.A.9.2 v.9, p.68 for Elizur Wright's reply to Maria Weston Chapman; Wright's letter is dated Sept. 15, 1837.
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  4. Correspondence
  5. Fitch, Charles 1805 1844
  6. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  7. History
  8. Massachusetts
  9. Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus) 1805 1847
  10. Slaver
  11. United States
  12. Women
  13. Women Abolitionists
  14. Woodbury, James Trask 1803 1861
  15. Wright, Elizur 1804 1885

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