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Partial letter from Caroline Weston, [Boston?], Saturday noon, [1840?]

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Holograph.Caroline Weston went to the anti-slavery offices and learned that a meeting was to be held to "deliberate anent [Joel Prentiss] Bishop." She mentions Mr. Adams as "the hat store man." She describes the trouble caused by Bishop. [There seems to be a gap in the letter at this point.] The remainder of the letter is taken up with the description of an anti-slavery fair.
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Keywords

  1. Anti Slavery Fairs
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Bishop, Joel Prentiss 1814 1901
  4. Boston
  5. Correspondence
  6. History
  7. Massachusetts
  8. Slaver
  9. United States
  10. Weston, Caroline 1808 1882
  11. Women
  12. Women Abolitionists

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