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“…little was required of her…”
“…Maury home was filled with birds…”
“…Green’s Farm and Tribridge Hall…”
“…Saratoga and Oyster Bay.”
“…Tompkins Square park…”
“…matinees and plays…”
“…too mild for cotton…”
“…ten dollars a barrel…”
“…full of secessionist folly…”
“…any serf population in the world.”
“…Autobiography of a Female Slave.”
“…canes that had been mailed…”
“…Dred Scott…”
“…to extend slavery throughout the Union.”
“…little was required of her…”
Anarcha does not appear in the Maury letters I viewed from this time, so my characterizations of this time are speculative, but likely enough.
“…Maury home was filled with birds…”
Letter from Tobin Maury to Ann Maury, September 18, 1855, held in the Maury Family Collection at the Special Collections department of Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“…Green’s Farm and Tribridge Hall…”
Letter from Ann Fontaine Maury to Ann Maury, August 21, 1855, held in the Maury Family Collection at the Special Collections department of Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Letter from William Lewis Maury to Ann Maury, July 14, 1855, held in the Maury Family materials at the Special Collections department of the Swem Library at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
“…Saratoga and Oyster Bay.”
Letter from Ann Fontaine Maury to Ann Maury, August 21, 1855, held in the Maury Family Collection at the Special Collections department of Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Letter from Tobin Maury to Ann Maury, July 13, 1855, held in the Maury Family materials at the Special Collections department of the Swem Library at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
“…Tompkins Square park…”
Letter from Tobin Maury to Ann Maury, July 13, 1855, held in the Maury Family materials at the Special Collections department of the Swem Library at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
“…matinees and plays…”
Letter from John Maury and Ann Fontaine Maury to Ann Maury, September 18, 1855, held in the Maury Family materials at the Special Collections department of the Swem Library at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
“…too mild for cotton…”
Letter from Rutson Maury to Ann Maury, July 24, 1855, held in the Maury Family materials at the Special Collections department of the Swem Library at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
“…ten dollars a barrel…”
Letter from “M.F.” to “M.,” Ann Fontaine Maury acting as secretary, January 23, 1856. This letter, and its transcription, are in the possession of Russell Hooper, who was hugely generous with his private collection, and who was an inexhaustible trough of information about the Maury family. I am deeply indebted to him.
“…full of secessionist folly…”
Letter from Ann Maury to “Cousin,” probably Ann Fontaine Maury’s mother, March 6, 1861, held in the Maury Family Collection at the Special Collections department of Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“…any serf population in the world.”
The National Anti-Slavery Standard, December 27, 1856, p. 1, reprinted from the Nashville Union.
“…Autobiography of a Female Slave.”
The National Anti-Slavery Standard, January 10, 1857, p. 3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattie_Griffith_Browne
“…canes that had been mailed…”
The National Anti-Slavery Standard, January 3, 1857, p. 1.
“…Dred Scott…”
The National Anti-Slavery Standard, December 27, 1856, p. 2.
“…to extend slavery throughout the Union.”
The National Anti-Slavery Standard, December 27, 1856, p. 2.