Letter from Julia A. Tappan, New York, [New York], to Anne Warren Weston, [1837] July 21
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Tappan, Julia A
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.At the end of the letter, the writer signs her name as Juliana A. Tappan.Julia A. Tappan writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to the Philadelphia anti-slavery society "sending out two dozen silk reticules requesting that they may be stamped from the plate representing a slave mother, & her infant sitting under a tree, & the accompanying words to 100 pieces of silk can be stamped for about the same price as 25." She will wait until she hears back from Anne about whether her society intends to have any stamping in New York. She asks if Mr. Southard has promised a New York engraver all the work of the New York anti-slavery society. Tappan and her associated have been working on petitions. She writes, "I have left many houses ashamed of my sex, I must say that I met with more intelligence in the families of some colored persons in my district than in the spendidly furnished rooms of wealthy citizens in Hudson square. Not only did I meet with utter ignorance about the subject of slavery, but about the affairs of our country. Ladies, sitting in spendid sofas, in the midst of elegance, looked at us, as if they had never before heard the word Texas, & I presume some of them would have been unable to say whether it was north or west or south of Louisiana, or whether or no[t] it belonged to the U.S." She goes on to blame their...
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- Anti Slavery Fairs
- Antislavery Movements
- Chapman, Henry Grafton 1804 1842
- Christianity
- Correspondence
- History
- Knapp, Isaac 1804 1843
- Philadelphia Female Anti Slavery Society
- Publishers And Publishing
- Publishing
- Religious Aspects
- Slaver
- Societies
- Societies, Etc
- Society Of Friends
- Tappan, Julia A
- United States
- Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
- Women
- Women Abolitionists
- Women Social Reformers