Miriam Gratz Moses Cohen to Rebecca Gratz, May 27, 1838

Miriam writes to her aunt Rebecca, expressing her abhorrence of the wedding of abolitionists Angelina Grimké and Theodore Dwight Weld, at which both Black and white guests were in attendance.

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Title:Miriam Gratz Moses Cohen to Rebecca Gratz
Author:Miriam Gratz Moses Cohen
Recipient:Rebecca Gratz
Origin:Georgetown, SC
Destination:Philadelphia, PA
Date:1838-05-27
Language:English
Description:Letter. 1 sheet.
Subject
(Personal Name):		Gratz, Rebecca, 1781-1869
Cohen, Miriam Gratz Moses, 1808-1891
Cohen, Solomon, 1802-1875
Gratz, Benjamin, 1792-1884
Morris, Robert, 1802-1891
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Livermore, Harriet, 1788-1868
Leeser, Isaac, 1806-1868
%Miss Simmy
Gratz, Jacob, 1790-1856
%Fanny Samuels?
?Peters, Sarah Robinson, 1785-1850
Cohen, Rebecca, 1782-1840
Subject
(Geographic):		Mobile, AL
Columbus, OH
Charleston, SC
Philadelphia, PA
Africa
Virginia
Subject
(Topical):		Travel
Housing
Slavery
Enslaved peoples
Racism
Race relations
Abolitionism
Crime
Arson
Newspapers and periodicals
National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C.)
Marriage
Events
Life event
Wedding
Politics
Health
Literature
Provenance:American Philosophical Society
Publisher:Gratz College
Citation
for Scan:		Miriam Gratz Moses Cohen. ALS to Rebecca Gratz, Georgetown, SC, May 27, 1838. From the original at American Philosophical Society Library, 105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 USA.
Citation
for Transcript:		Miriam Gratz Moses Cohen to Rebecca Gratz, May 27, 1838. RGC0107, Rebecca Gratz Digital Collection, Gratz College. Image from the original at the American Philosophical Society. https://rebeccagratz.digitalcollections.gratzcollege.edu/item/rgc0107.
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