Letter from Mary Anne Estlin, Park Street, Bristol, [England], to Miss Weston, May 8, 1851
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Weston, Miss
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Holograph, signed.Mary Anne Estlin tells of heated arguments between Russell Carpenter, her father (John Bishop Estlin), and William James. Mary A. Estlin and her friends have angered John Scoble and his followers, Mrs. Richardson and her Free Labor advocates, and the Unitarians. Mary A. Estlin said: "We are not looking for great results from these three fold strifes; ..." William and Ellen Craft have developed a strong anti-slavery feeling wherever they go. Mary A. Estlin said that "it grieved us to learn that your brother's health had again given way," perhaps a reference to Richard Warren Weston's health. Mary Anne Estlin complains that Emma Weston and Elizabeth Chapman do not write. She expects to attend a meeting of the "pro-Slavery Unitarians" in June. There was a meeting in Bridgewater of the Unitarian Christian Union in which Mary A. Estlin was opposed by Russell Carpenter. Mary A. Estlin and her father, John Bishop Estlin, have been more successful with the Baptists and Congregationalists. The orthodox dissenters were much impressed by clerical teachings. Her father's speech was printed in many newspapers. Mary A. Estlin refers to the help of William James and Miss Fannie N. Tribe in carrying out certain subterfuges employed to convert the clergy to abolitionism. Ellen Craft was surprised at the small number of working English abolitionists. She defends the conduct of William Wells Brown and the Crafts in regard to the Edinburgh abolitionists and takes Miss Wigham's side against Andrew Paton. She tells about a meeting between Dr....
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- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Brown, William Wells 1814? 1884
- Carpenter, Russell Lant 1816 1892
- Congregational Churches
- Correspondence
- Craft, Ellen
- Craft, William
- Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop) 1785 1855
- Estlin, Mary Anne 1820 1902
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- Great Britain
- History
- James, William
- Massachusetts
- Massie, Isabella
- Paton, Andrew 1805 1884
- Pennington, James W. C
- Richardson, Anna H
- Scoble, John 1799 1877
- Scotland
- Slaver
- Tribe, Fanny N
- Unitarian Churches
- United States
- Weston, Miss
- Weston, R. Warren (Richard Warren) 1819 1873
- Wigham, Eliza
- Women
- Women Abolitionists