Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
Letter from Abby Kelley Foster, to Elizabeth Mountfort, Portland, asking her to raise money in Portland for the anti-slavery cause. Foster was a leading woman orator on behalf of the anti-slavery cause.
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About This Item
- Title: Letter from Abby K. Foster to Elizabeth Mountfort, ca. 1851
- Creator: Abby Kelley Foster
- Creation Date: circa 1851
- Subject Date: circa 1851
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Local Code: Coll. 14, Box 1/4
- Collection: Portland Anti-Slavery Society records
- Object Type: Text
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Antislavery movements--Maine--Portland
- Foster, Abby Kelley, 1811-1887--Correspondence
- Letters
- Manuscripts
- Mountfort, Elizabeth, 1806-1876--Correspondence
- Portland Anti-Slavery Society--Records and correspondence
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