Letter from Anne Knight, [Chelmsford], England, to Maria Weston Chapman, 4/8 [18]40

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Title:
Letter from Anne Knight, [Chelmsford], England, to Maria Weston Chapman, 4/8 [18]40
Author:
Knight, Anne, 1786-1862
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
[April 8, 1840]
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
Women's rights
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Knight, Anne, 1786-1862
Cropper, James, 1773-1840
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 9 x 7 1/4 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qz20tb18h
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Chelmsford], England
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Anne Knight writes to Maria Weston Chapman: "How much have we felt they absence during our convention..." With much indignation, Anne Knight condemns the exclusion of women at the so called World's Convention in London. She quotes James Cropper as saying: "...it is no use talking Anne the men are gone to sleep & it is impossible to rouse them you must go forth." [Quoted in part in William Lloyd Garrison, New York, 1885-9, vol. II., p. 367.] She asserts that the scientific congresses of France are men & women membered myself being a member & having addressed them at Liege & Blois on the subject of slavery..." Anne Knight begs Maria W. Chapman to send "the emphatic question across the Atlantic from thy strong pen to our exclusives at Broad Street--- ..."
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
2807841
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.13, p.49
Barcode:
39999066782937
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