Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Weymouth Landing, [Mass.], to Samuel May, March 15th, [1857?]
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Holograph, signed.Maria Weston Chapman criticizes the theological and metaphysical methods of attacking slavery employed by Parker Pillsbury and Stephen S. Foster as being obsolete. Chapman does not think Parker Pillsbury or Howard Gilbert could edit the Anti-Slavery Standard. She says that Pillsbury's mental outlook is a result of his ill health. She discusses the post office question. She mentions Nathan Matthews.
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- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Correspondence
- Foster, Stephen S. (Stephen Symonds) 1809 1881
- Gilbert, Howard Worcester 1819 1894
- History
- Massachusetts
- Matthews, Nathan
- May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
- National Anti Slavery Standard
- Pillsbury, Parker 1809 1898
- Slaver
- United States
- Women
- Women Abolitionists