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Letter from Abby Kimber, Kimberton, [Pennsylvania], to George Thompson, 1840 [November] 26

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Abby Kimber writes to George Thompson in regards to congratulating him on the woman's right movement in Scotland. She writes, "Our American ladies have been embroidering Harrison Bannery, and have presented them before thousands with all the 'power and circumstance' of political meetings." She writes of meetings in Edinburgh for J.G. Birney, Stanton and Scoble. She reveals a story of T. Jenney's dismissing two millwrights for refusing to eat with African American employees.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. African Americans
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Birney, James Gillespie 1792 1857
  5. Correspondence
  6. England
  7. Great Britain
  8. History
  9. Kimber, Abby 1804 1871
  10. Meetings
  11. Political Activity
  12. Racism
  13. Scoble, John 1799 1877
  14. Scotland
  15. Segregation
  16. Slaver
  17. Societies, Etc
  18. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 1815 1902
  19. Suffrage
  20. Suffragists
  21. Temperance
  22. Thompson, George 1804 1878
  23. United States
  24. Women
  25. Women Abolitionists
  26. Women Social Reformers
  27. Women's Rights

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