IN MASSACHUSETTS. BY MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN. BOSTON: DOW & JACKSON’S ANTI-SLAVERY PRESS. 14 Devonshire Street. 1839. RIGHT AND WRONG....

Before bringing forward upon the stage the characters who figure in the drama, I have endeavored to make the reader acquainted with the ground on which the different scenes were to be acted. Thierry. The position of New England in 1829, was a most cheerless one for Freedom. All the great interests of the country were nearly or remotely involved in slaveholding, through all their various arrangements, civil, ecclesiastical, mercantile and matrimonial; yet all disclaimed its alliance. Every body w

The following letters are selected and subjoined as specimens of the secret correspondence of this period. [CONFIDENTIAL.] Salem, Dec. 7th, 1838. Rev. S. J. May. Dear Brother ,—I presume you have been consulted on the subject named below; but my anxiety on the topic, leads me to write you. We found, some time ago, that the admission of other subjects into the Liberator had entirely destroyed its circulation, in many parts of this County, and others were gradually dropping it, while a large propo