Letter from Esther Moore, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1843 [February] 14

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Title:
Letter from Esther Moore, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1843 [February] 14
Description:
Esther Moore writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to her path is solitary as her family connections are sectarian and opposed to "modern abolition movements." She exhorts Maria to continue in her valiant fight for the cause. Mrs. Susan (Cox) Luther has "been divers times dragg'd out of the meeting houses sometimes with rough and merciless hands, cast into the street for speaking what I thought the truth." She quotes extensively from a written statement by Mrs. Luther of her sentiments in regard to freedom of expression of religious conviction. She was disappointed to find in the noticed of the Pennsylvania convention of the Eastern district that the Philadelphia riots were accorded last appropation than they deserved, except Robert Purvis. She seldom sees Lucretia Mott who is one of the most popular public speakers. She wants her to be more "ultra" in carrying out her non-resisting principles at home. There is a great persecution movement in the Cherry street meeting of which Lucretia Mott is a member. She hopes that "brother Stephen [Symonds Foster]" will not die "by such savage cruelty too." It is "passing strange" that the descendants of George Fox should be "some of the prime actors in the Tragedy."
Author:
Moore, Esther, 1775-1845
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
[February 14, 1843]
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--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--Violence against--United States--History--19th century
Nonviolence--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Christianity
Lectures and lecturing
Abolitionists--United States
Violence
Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Christianity
Nonviolence
Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Moore, Esther, 1775-1845
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Foster, Stephen S. (Stephen Symonds), 1809-1881
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 cm.
Permalink:
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Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
6055316
Call #:
MS A.9.2, v.18, p.9
Barcode:
39999085845913