Letter from Emma Parker, Cavendish, [Vermont], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1840 May 14

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Title:
Letter from Emma Parker, Cavendish, [Vermont], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1840 May 14
Description:
Emma Parker writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to her disappointment at not being able to attend the national anti-slavery convention "with feelings of intense interest" due to complications in traveling to New York. She was looking forward to meeting Maria along with William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Clarke Wright, and Lydia Marie Child. She expresses her loyalty to the Massachusetts anti-slavery society and the Boston female anti-slavery society. She writes, "there has been a good degree of A[nti].S[lavery]. feeling awakened in this place, but it was effectually hushed to sleep before it was matured into action, this was effected by Clerical policy." She writes that although non resistance meets with opposition, it has taken "root in some hearts." She wishes Wright could speak at Cavendish.
Author:
Parker, Emma
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
May 14, 1840
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--United States--History--19th century
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Nonviolence--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Meetings
Christianity
Nonviolence
Slavery and the church--United States
Boston Female Anti-slavery Society
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
Parker, Emma
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 cm.
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Place of origin:
Cavendish, [Vermont]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5977459
Call #:
MS A.9.2, v.13, p.70
Barcode:
39999085845004