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A. W. Weston
Best known for her work in the American abolitionist movement, this 19th-century writer left behind vivid letters and reports that capture the energy, strain, and moral urgency of antislavery organizing. Her surviving work offers a close, human view of reform activism in Boston.
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Report of the Twentieth National Anti-Slavery Bazaar
by A. W. Weston
About the author
Anne Warren Weston was an American abolitionist born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1812. She became closely involved with the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, and she is remembered especially for the letters she wrote about organizing, fundraising, and the day-to-day pressures faced by antislavery activists.
Her writing is valued not just for its political commitment, but for its immediacy. Through letters and reports, she documented the practical work behind the movement and the opposition reformers encountered. The title linked to A. W. Weston in major catalog records, Report of the Twentieth National Anti-Slavery Bazaar, reflects that same world of organized activism and public persuasion.
Weston died in 1890. While she is not as widely known as some of her contemporaries, her words remain an important window into grassroots abolitionism and the role women played in sustaining it.