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Letter from Samuel May, Anti-Slavery Office, Boston, [Mass.], to Miss Weston, April 12, 1850

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Weston, Miss

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Holograph, signed.In this letter, Samuel May, Jr., mentions a meeting of the Old Colony Anti-Slavery Society at North Bridgewater. Mrs. Margaret Sansom of Edinburgh left 80 to 100 pounds in her will to the American Anti-Slavery Society, with the stipulation that the money not be used to purchase the freedom of a slave. John G. Palfrey told Wendell Phillips "that he thought he had, in his "Review," completely served Mr. Webster up!"
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Keywords

  1. American Anti Slavery Society
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Boston
  4. Correspondence
  5. History
  6. Massachusetts
  7. May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
  8. Palfrey, John Gorham 1796 1881
  9. Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
  10. Sansom, Margaret
  11. Slaver
  12. United States
  13. Webster, Daniel 1782 1852
  14. Weston, Miss
  15. Women
  16. Women Abolitionists

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