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A. W. Weston
An American abolitionist and reformer, she is best remembered for her work with Boston antislavery organizations and for writing about one of their major fundraising efforts. Her surviving letters and reports offer a vivid window into the everyday labor behind the movement.
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Report of the Twentieth National Anti-Slavery Bazaar
by A. W. Weston
About the author
Born in 1812, Anne Warren Weston was an American abolitionist active in Boston. She is closely associated with the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, and later readers have often remembered her through the letters she wrote during the intense years of antislavery organizing.
She is credited as the author of Report of the Twentieth National Anti-Slavery Bazaar, a detailed account of a fundraiser that supported the American Anti-Slavery Society. That work reflects the practical, determined side of reform: planning events, gathering support, and turning community effort into political action.
Weston was also connected to broader reform causes, including peace and women's rights. Although a full portrait image could not be confirmed from the sources reviewed here, the historical record that survives shows a writer deeply involved in the moral and organizational work of nineteenth-century activism.