Anna E. Cook writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to receiving the petitions to abolish slavery in Washington, D.C. she forwarded and her success in circulating them in Hadley. She writes, "The prospect was far from a flattering one in putting forth such an effort here on account of the profound lethargy that reigns here as it regards the condition of the poor degraded slave, most of the people here are decided colonizationists, therefore rigid opposers of abolition efforts." She writes that those who oppose abolitionists "cussed me and threatened...them because they said, "they would dissolve the Union, so you see how blinded we are as a people & how much we need the labors of self denying abolitionists."
- By Cook, Anna E., Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
- Dated December 25, 1839
- Held by Boston Public Library
- Part of Anti-Slavery Collection
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Subject
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Correspondence
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Slavery--Washington (D.C.)
Antislavery movements--United States
Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Cook, Anna E.
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885