Letter from Sarah Moore Grimkè, Fort Lee, [New York], to Elizabeth Pease Nichol, 1838 [November] 16

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Title:
Letter from Sarah Moore Grimkè, Fort Lee, [New York], to Elizabeth Pease Nichol, 1838 [November] 16
Description:
Sarah Moore Grimkè writes to Elizabeth Pease Nichol thanking her for her letters and the pamphlets she included for them. She has distributed these pamphlets to others including John Quincy Adams and his wife. She writes of the abolitionist cause in the North and admits "it seems almost impossible to judge what will be finally the result of the question of abolition in this country." She discusses Congress and petitions that are being sent to legislators pushing for the abolishment of slavery in the District of Columbia and Florida. She writes her happiness on hearing of Cromwell speaking on the subject of American slavery. She writes that Elizabeth desired to read of Angelina's address to the "Legis. of Mass." but Sarah informs her that nothing she said was published except for a small part in the Liberator. She also discusses the subject of women's rights, remarking that "When we first began to lecture it did not occur to us that our own course would require a defense, but as soon as we got to Mass. we were awaited by the pastoral letter & at almost every step in our courses we found the clergy blocking up our way, & with few exceptions denying our right to plead for the slave." She writes about her disappointment in J.J.Gurney's sermon in Washington, stating that "he had no word of reproof for such iniquity he preached a sermon there very much approved by the Senators & representatives."
Addressee:
Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897
Author:
Grimké, Sarah, 1792-1873
Date:
[November 16, 1838]
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
Antislavery movements--Congresses--United States--History--19th century
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--Great Britain--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Slavery--United States--Legal status of slaves in free states--19th century
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Congresses and conventions
Lectures and lecturing
Meetings
Publishers and publishing
Antislavery movements--Great Britain
Christianity
Women's rights--United States--History--19th century
Slavery--United States--Legal status of enslaved persons in free states
Slavery and the church--United States
Slave trade--United States--History
Slavery
Societies
Women social reformers--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879
Grimké, Sarah, 1792-1873
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Places:
United Kingdom
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 32 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z10z254n
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Fort Lee, [New York]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript contains purple postmarked stamp that says "Garrison Mss."
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5118986
Call #:
MS 957.6
Barcode:
39999085430443