Letter from Henry Clarke Wright, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1839 May 2

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Title:
Letter from Henry Clarke Wright, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1839 May 2
Description:
Henry Clarke Wright writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to his impression that the conflict among abolitionists in the Massachusetts region grows out of "personal animosities, a desire to see who shall be greatest in the kingdom of Abolition-& that nothing more is necessary to heal all divisions than for the combattants to lay aside all personal dislikes & prejudices, cease to call each other hard names, stroke hands & be good friends." He discusses the divisions between the new organization and the old one on account of those who believe "the admission of women to deliberate & vote in all meetings & the formation of the Non-Resistance Society will finally ruin the Anti-Slavery Cause." He says he has talked to Whittier and told him that he misrepresented the state of things in Massachusetts. Lucretia Mott & C.C. Burleigh would rather see it "rightly." He then gives a full account of the matters discussed at the Quarterly meeting, including Lucretia Mott's defiance of the mayor in the matter of walking to the meetings with African Americans.
Author:
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
May 2, 1839
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Women abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Anti-slavery fairs--United States--History--19th century
African American social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Nonviolence--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Societies
African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century
African American social reformers
Nonviolence
Publishers and publishing
Meetings
Women's rights--United States--History--19th century
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810-1878
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 cm.
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Place of origin:
Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5957190
Call #:
MS A.9.2, v.11, p.94
Barcode:
39999085843264