Letter from Sophia Davenport, St. Louis, [Missouri], to Anne Warren Weston, [1838] June 30

Sophia Davenport writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to a brief survey of her eighteen-day journey to Missouri. She recalls a conversation with a Virginian, Mr. Shepherd, and other abolitionists from Ohio about slavery.

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