Liberty Bell, The.
[Abolition]. Chapman, Maria Weston and Anne Warren Weston, editors. The Liberty Bell: By Friends of Freedom. Boston: National Anti-Slavery Bazaar, 1853.
Small 8vo.; red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind; a.e.g.; lightly soiled.
First edition: Dumond, 74. A presentation copy, inscribed: “Mr. Andrew Paton, with the cordial respect of Anne Warren Weston, Boston, U.S.” Abolitionists Maria Weston Chapman (1806-85) and Anne Warren Weston (1812-90), sisters, began editing the radical periodical The Liberty Bell in 1839. This gift book for 1853—an annual offshoot of the magazine—contains work by Richard Hildreth (“The Approaching Crisis”), Wendell Phillips (“Daniel Webster”), and William Lloyd Garrison (“To Louis Kossuth”). The Liberty Bell, according to sibling publication The Liberator, belonged “in the parlor of every friend of the slave” (Philip S. Foner, History of Black Americans, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1983, Vol. 2, 455). Both Chapman and Weston aligned themselves with Lucy Stone’s radical pro-suffrage wing of the abolition movement.
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