Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, March 11th, 1839
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Holograph, signed.Anne Warren Weston recounts the dissensions and affairs of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Comments on sermons by [John Overton?] Choules and Dr. Charles T.C. Follen. Describes a social evening at Henrietta Sargent's, comments on Epes [Sargent] and Dr. Henry [Bowditch]. Anne refers to the "scandalous report" of the Judiciary Committee of the Legislature in respect to the petition of the women of Lynn and Dorchester. At a meeting of the Boston (i.e. Mass.) Anti-Slavery Society, Wendell Phillips made a "beautiful" speech in which he "denounced Lincoln as only fit for the representative of scurrilous & licentious profligates" incapable of understanding the hearts of the women of Lynn. The Legislature are ready to lynch Wendell Phillips. Anne attended a meeting of a committee of the Legislature appointed to hear Sarah Baker, who was accused of forging names on the Dorchester women's petition. Wendell Phillips acted as her counsel, and [George?] Bradburn as a witness; the abolitionists made common cause with her. Anne gives news of family and kin in Weymouth.
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- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Boston Female Anti Slavery Society
- Bowditch, Henry I. (Henry Ingersoll) 1808 1892
- Correspondence
- History
- Lincoln, Levi 1782 1868
- Massachusetts
- Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
- Sargent, Epes 1813 1880
- Sargent, Henrietta
- Slaver
- United States
- Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
- Weston, Deborah B. 1814
- Women
- Women Abolitionists