“If this is the last bulwark of freedom, we may as well die here as anywhere.”

— Maria Weston Chapman

As a mob was poised to disrupt a meeting, as quoted in [Maria Weston Chapman: American Abolitionist, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Weston-Chapman, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 January 2019]

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American abolitionist 1806–1885

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