Letter from Isabella Massie to Mary Anne Estlin

Isabella Massie writes to Mary Anne Estlin in regards to inviting some friends to meet mebers of the Bristol & Clifton Ladies' anti-slavery association. She wants her friends to meet real abolitionists with "anti-slavery zeal and talent" instead of pro-slavery orthodox ministers. She writes, "they conclude no one who does not sign the creed & code of H.C. Wright may claim being an American abolitionist." She adds that she favors American abolitionists over those orthodox ministers but is grieved by their anti-slavery newspapers which "alienate many who love the cause." She does not wish to send the "National Anti-Slavery Standard" newspaper to her friends because it contains "sentiments from which my own soul recoils."

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1832 - 1867

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