Letter from Abby Kimber, Kimberton, [Pennsylvania], to George Thompson, 1840 [November] 26
Summary
Abby Kimber writes to George Thompson in regards to congratulating him on the woman's right movement in Scotland. She writes, "Our American ladies have been embroidering Harrison Bannery, and have presented them before thousands with all the 'power and circumstance' of political meetings." She writes of meetings in Edinburgh for J.G. Birney, Stanton and Scoble. She reveals a story of T. Jenney's dismissing two millwrights for refusing to eat with African American employees.
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1840
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