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Holograph, signedJohn Bishop Estlin asks Maria Weston Chapman for a brief sketch of a few words of the history of the American & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society "from the separation in 1840 to the present time." John Bishop Estlin's opponent, Mr. Young, "as undergone an influence that may be correctly termed Scobleism, & is fully possessed with the belief that 'Am. & For. A.S. Soc.' is an efficient instrumentality." However, this "Scobleizing" has not made him a hater of Garrison. Some prejudiced people "are beginning to open their eyes to the shameful injustice systematically perpetrated for years against Mr. Garrison by Jos. Sturge & John Scoble. [William] Wells] Brown and the Crafts are helping on the change of opinion." Estlin summarizes a series of newspaper articles that he is sending Maria Weston Chapman
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- American And Foreign Anti Slavery Society
- Antislavery Movements
- Brown, William Wells, 1814? 1884
- Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806 1885
- Craft, Ellen
- Craft, William
- Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop), 1785 1855
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879
- Scoble, John
- Slaver
- Sturge, Joseph, 1793 1859
- Women
- Women Abolitionists