Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Francis Jackson Garrison, Aug. 9th, 1881

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Place of origin:
Weymouth, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph.
Maria Weston Chapman is sending this letter in response to a letter she recieved from [Francis Jackson] Garrison. She gives the dates of the publication of "Right and Wrong in Boston." No. 1 is "a concise statement of events previous & subsequent to the annual meeting of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society" with the motto from Fenelon: "Si je vous parle fortement, n'en soyez pas etonne; c'est que la verite est libre et forte." She explains the delayed publication date, due to the reluctance of the booksellers. When Francis J. Garrison finds a copy of this number, Maria Chapman will "thrust in a few notes, -- not needed at the time; but now, by years, made necessary." She explains the background of No. 1; society, state, and church all being in bonds of slavery, it seemed "needful to begin first with Society ...& this was the aim of No. 1." She recollects the misgivings of Mr. [Amos Augustus] Phelps and Mary S. Parker, and the final adoption of the publication plan by the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Harriet Martineau "passed through the skirts of the mob--unaware of its nature at the time" [1835]. Chapman wrote: "The members of Dr. Channing's congregation were the mob." She tells an anecdote of a Mr. Rhodes, who kept a hat store near the scene of the mob, saying that in thirty years he had never seen so many good hats before.
Identifier:
3133173
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.7, p.23
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