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Letter from Oliver Johnson, Anti-Slavery Office, New York, to Maria Weston Chapman, 18 Aug. 1859

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Holograph, signed.Oliver Johnson explains his publishing a paragraph in the National Anti-Slavery Standard, which was taken from a letter sent to him by Harriet Martineau. He sends a note which came with Harriet Martineau's letter. He heard that Parker Pillsbury and Stephen S. Foster have become friends again.On page three of the manuscript, there is a separate note in pencil written by Maria Weston Chapman. She says that H.M. [Harriet Martineau] paid no attention to a letter by Wendell Phillips; this letter was briefly referred to by Oliver Johnson on page two of this manuscript.
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  4. Correspondence
  5. Foster, Stephen S. (Stephen Symonds) 1809 1881
  6. History
  7. Johnson, Oliver 1809 1889
  8. Martineau, Harriet 1802 1876
  9. Massachusetts
  10. National Anti Slavery Standard
  11. Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
  12. Pillsbury, Parker 1809 1898
  13. Slaver
  14. United States
  15. Women
  16. Women Abolitionists

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