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Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Chauncy pl[ace], [Boston, Mass.], to Deborah Weston, Friday, April 22, [1841?]

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Holograph, signed.Maria Weston Chapman and her husband came home because of homesickness. She is trying to decide on a house to rent. She tells about an anti-slavery meeting in Albany where Henry B. Stanton and another tried to organize an Eastern New York State Anti-Slavery Society. Gerrit Smith was present, pushing his Third Party ideas. The letter ends with some family news.
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  4. Correspondence
  5. Farnsworth, Amos 1788 1861
  6. History
  7. Liberty Party (U.S. : 1840 1848)
  8. Massachusetts
  9. Slaver
  10. Smith, Gerrit 1797 1874
  11. Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster) 1805 1887
  12. United States
  13. Weston, Deborah B. 1814
  14. Women
  15. Women Abolitionists

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