Letter from Sarah Moore Grimkè, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Elizabeth Pease Nichol, 1840 November 14

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Title:
Letter from Sarah Moore Grimkè, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Elizabeth Pease Nichol, 1840 November 14
Description:
Sarah Moore Grimkè writes to Elizabeth Pease Nichol regarding her life after Angelina's marriage. She says that she has "lived so retired since Angelina's marriage and our time has been so occupied in a different way in the service of the slave, & in domestic duties, that we are comparatively ignorant of the movement of abolitionists...yet our hearts are true to the slave if we know ourselves." She writes that Elizabeth Stanton wrote them that John Scoble said "we had changed our views on the subject of womens rights. I am at a loss to imagine on what he grounded such an assumption we thought we should have written to E.S...we do not agree." She writes about her little nephew, Charles Stuart (Weld) as well as the World Anti-Slavery Convention, discussing her opinions of the rights of women to attend the convention. She writes about her request for information from an article in the Emancipator of June 12. She includes an extract of a letter written by G.W.T[aylor] which advocates for Colonization. She discusses Beulah Sanson's attempt to get a "colored child the daughter of a gentleman in Virginia....a good education, & sent her to Philadelphia for that purpose-Beulah applied to Friends to receive her not into their select schools, but into one of the corporation schools of which they have the control, her request was rejected, she then applied for her admission into the 'Aswell School' which is a free school established...for the children of the poor, not members of the society." She discusses the expulsion of William Bassett from the Society of Friends. Theodore D. Weld writes a brief letter after to Elizabeth Pease Nichol of abolitionist news.
Addressee:
Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897
Author:
Grimké, Sarah, 1792-1873
Date:
November 14, 1840
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Society of Friends--United States--19th century
African Americans--Education--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women social reformers--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Meetings
Women's rights--United States--History--19th century
Society of Friends--History
African Americans--Colonization--Africa
African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century
African Americans--Education--History
Women abolitionists--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895
Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879
Grimké, Sarah, 1792-1873
Emancipator (New York, N.Y. : 1835)
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 31 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z10z1799
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript contains a purple postmarked stamp that says "Garrison Mss."
Identifier:
5118225
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.10, p.46
Barcode:
39999085430344