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Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, June 27, Wednesday night

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Holograph, signed with initials.Anne Warren Weston begins the letter with family news. Anne has written an article for the Liberator in order to correct a "great mistake in Whittier's reasoning." In the last issue of the Recorder, there is a scandalous account of the manner in which the anti-slavery memorial was received by the first ecclesiastical body.This letter is written on the verso and margins of the leaflet, the "Address of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society to the Women of New England," and includes their petition to the House of Representatives and Senate to abolish slavery.
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Correspondence
  4. History
  5. Liberator (Boston, Mass.)
  6. Massachusetts
  7. Slaver
  8. United States
  9. Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
  10. Weston, Deborah B. 1814
  11. Whittier, John Greenleaf 1807 1892
  12. Women
  13. Women Abolitionists

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