Letter from Sarah Moore Grimkè, Brookline, [Massachusetts], to Henry Clark Wright, 1837 August 27

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Title:
Letter from Sarah Moore Grimkè, Brookline, [Massachusetts], to Henry Clark Wright, 1837 August 27
Description:
Angelina Emily Grimkè and Sarah Moore Grimkè write to Henry Clark Wright regarding their disappointment in not seeing their articles in the New England Spectactor. Sarah writes, "I wrote to him yesterday to request him to return it to me if he did not intend to publish it & he wrote in reply, 'the communication from Mr. Wright respecting yourself & your sister, contained so many things highly objectionable that I could not put it into the printers hands without revision, this I have not yet done...I will either make use of it, or send it to you next week.'" She continues to write that she is "sick of the narrow minded policy of Christians, of abolitionists, trying to keep us under the different parts of Christianity, as if it were not a beautiful & harmonious system which could not be divided, what shall we say to those times & what shall we do, but leave the dead to follow their dead & follow Christ." Sarah discusses how Angelina is more "downcast than I have yet seen her, because our coming forth in the A.S. cause seems really to be at the bottom of this clerical defection." She writes that J.G. Whittier and T.D. Weld want her and her sister to remain "silent on the woman question" but "I do not feel as if I could surrender my right to discuss any great moral subject." She writes that the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society has severed all connection with them and she supposes they will "do the same by thee." She has had a long talk with Amos A. Phelps on the woman question, and is pleased that William Lloyd Garrison agrees with her about women's rights. She lists the places where Angelina has lectured. She also describes the methods that Native Americans use to punish children, stating that "when a fault is committed, the mother begins to weep. if her son or daughter ask her what is the matter, she replies 'you disgrace me.'
Addressee:
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
Author:
Grimké, Sarah, 1792-1873
Date:
August 27, 1837
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Correspondence
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Lectures and lecturing
Meetings
Publishers and publishing
Christianity
Indians of North America--Civil rights
Societies
Women's rights--United States--History--19th century
American Anti-Slavery Society. Executive Committee
Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879
Grimké, Sarah, 1792-1873
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 33 cm.
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Place of origin:
Brookline, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5114171
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.6, p.64
Barcode:
39999085430237