Letter from Abby Kelley Foster, East Hampton, [Conn.], to Anne Warren Weston, 5 Mo[nth], 29 [day], [18]'39

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Place of origin:
East Hampton, [Conn.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Abby Kelley Foster has just visited for a week at a place where she has a sister. She is discouraged at rousing the people there, for the cause of abolition. She recounts at length her impressions of a visit to Fort Lee with Theodore and Angelina (Grimke) Weld. Angelina was very feeble; lecturing was too great a strain, and she worked too hard on assisting on "Slavery as it is." Sarah M. Grimke and Angelina Grimke Weld seem to hold that "any other unpopular cause, if espoused by abolitionists, will retard the progress of that cause." Theodore D. Weld is severe upon us, considering non-resistance pernicious in effect on work for emancipation. His attitude seems one of contempt mingled with pity.
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This date is inferred.
Identifier:
3132481
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.11, p.112
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