Letter from Esther Sturge, Northfleet House, [London?, England], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1 [day] 3 mo[nth] 1847

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Title:
Letter from Esther Sturge, Northfleet House, [London?, England], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1 [day] 3 mo[nth] 1847
Author:
Sturge, Esther
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
March 1, 1847
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Freed persons
Slavery--West Indies
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852
Sturge, Esther
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
2 leaves (6 p.) ; 9 x 7 5/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cv43qj413
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Northfleet House, [London?, England]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Esther Sturge wishes that all abolitionists would abstain from "speaking against any part of [the] holy scriptures or making light of our precious redeemer, every way it is wrong, and only weakens the great and good work, in which I am quite ready to believe every one who engages in it, is sincere." She praises Frederick Douglass. She gives arguments against buying slaves out of bondage. She tells about debt-ridden planters in the West Indies who are freeing their slaves. Sturge describes the misfortunes of Irish families that she knows.
Identifier:
3134387
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.23, p.10
Barcode:
39999066746874
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