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Letter from Esther Sturge, Northfleet House, [London?, England], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1 [day] 3 mo[nth] 1847

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Sturge, Esther

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Holograph, signed.Esther Sturge wishes that all abolitionists would abstain from "speaking against any part of [the] holy scriptures or making light of our precious redeemer, every way it is wrong, and only weakens the great and good work, in which I am quite ready to believe every one who engages in it, is sincere." She praises Frederick Douglass. She gives arguments against buying slaves out of bondage. She tells about debt-ridden planters in the West Indies who are freeing their slaves. Sturge describes the misfortunes of Irish families that she knows.
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  4. Correspondence
  5. Douglass, Frederick 1818 1895
  6. Famine, 1845 1852
  7. Freedmen
  8. History
  9. Ireland
  10. Massachusetts
  11. Slaver
  12. Slavery
  13. Sturge, Esther
  14. United States
  15. West Indies
  16. Women
  17. Women Abolitionists

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