Letter to Robert Adams
Title:
Letter to Robert Adams
Description:
In 1842 schoolteacher Sophia Foord moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, to join the recently formed utopian Northampton Association of Education and Industry. Founded to promote social reform through cooperative work, the NAEI was race-, class-, gender-and religion-equal. Foord writes that “this has become quite a depot for fugitives,” noting that “the slaves escape so frequently that their masters say . . . the Abolitionists must have ‘a railroad under ground.’” She also describes rather sarcastically a visit to writer and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child.
Creator:
Foord, Sophia
Date:
1843
Coverage:
Northampton, [Massachusetts]
Display Date:
8 May 1843
Hover Text:
Sophia Foord — abolitionist and teacher
Published Item:
U
Item Index:
30
Item Sort:
1800s
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