Letter from Grace Denning Williams, Brimfield, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1839 July 23

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Title:
Letter from Grace Denning Williams, Brimfield, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1839 July 23
Description:
Grace Denning Williams writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to the lack of anti-slavery zeal in her neighborhood. She writes, "Anti-slavery principles here have a Name to live and are dead. There are a few females here and a few of the other sex who are genuine abolitionists but we are powerless but in our individual capacity." She speaks of her experience last summer with a Virginian visitor and on a slaveholder's residence. Her hosts believed her to be different from Garrison but she admitted that she was a Garrisonian. She had an abolitionist stay at her house and she criticizes his "noisy declamation." She writes that she may contribute to the lady's anti-slavery fair. She speaks of her visit to New York last spring with a "respectable black family" and was "charmed with their unsophistocated love...when met at equals." She writes of her experiences at a funeral procession for African Americans and praises their gratitude.
Author:
Williams, Grace Denning
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
July 23, 1850
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
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Anti-slavery fairs--United States--History--19th century
African American abolitionists--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
African American abolitionists
Slavery--Justification
United States--Race relations
Williams, Grace Denning
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 26 cm.
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Place of origin:
Brimfield, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5925851
Call #:
MS A.9.2 v.12, p.1
Barcode:
39999085842183