Letter from Sophia Davenport, St. Louis, [Missouri], to Caroline Weston, 1835 Nov[ember] 15

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Title:
Letter from Sophia Davenport, St. Louis, [Missouri], to Caroline Weston, 1835 Nov[ember] 15
Description:
Sophia Davenport writes to Caroline Weston in regards to her journey to St. Louis. She discussed slavery with James Clark and his mother, who visited the south and believes "after she had been there a short time, she soon perceived that they were not fit to take care of themselves, that it would be doing a great injury, to set them free, &c...She approved of the colonization scheme." Clark's mother now thinks George Thompson is a "great villain." She writes of her experience speaking with a well treated slave woman. She spoke to an old female slave who attended Miss B's Sunday school who "prided herself upon being a Christian." A senator from Illinois denouced abolition as "shocking and fanatical." Davenport is enjoying her time in St. Louis. In the postscript, she describes being onboard a steamboat from Pittsburgh to Louisville with more than a dozen slaves chained below, to be sold in New Orleans.
Author:
Davenport, Sophia
Addressee:
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Date:
November 15, 1835
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--United States--History--19th century
Freedmen--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
African Americans--Colonization--Africa
Freed persons--United States
Slave trade--United States--History
Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States
Slavery
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Davenport, Sophia
Thompson, George, 1804-1878
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 26 cm.
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Place of origin:
St. Louis, [Missouri]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5863974
Call #:
MS A.9.2 v.7, p.76
Barcode:
39999085839890