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Journal entry by Caroline Weston, Monday, Feb 12, [1844?]

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Holograph.This may be a diary entry. Caroline Weston writes about her daily life. She travels from Hingham to Boston by stagecoach; hears much business gossip; describes the voice and manner of James G. Birney; took tea with Henrietta Sargent; taught school; heard Birney at the State House; and went to a gathering of abolitionists which included George Bancroft, Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, and others. She mentions George Blake. She went to hear a lecture by Emerson [perhaps Ralph Waldo Emerson]. She visited Henry Chapman, Sr. She says Samuel May, Jr., is to lecture at the Odeon.
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Birney, James Gillespie 1792 1857
  3. Blake, George
  4. Boston
  5. Chapman, Henry 1771 1846
  6. Correspondence
  7. History
  8. Massachusetts
  9. May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
  10. Slaver
  11. United States
  12. Weston, Caroline 1808 1882
  13. Women
  14. Women Abolitionists

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