“To the Women of Great Britain”, from Maria S. Parker

“To the Women of Great Britain”, is a letter signed by Maria S. Parker, from the Ladies’ Anti- Slavery Associations of New England.The letter expresses common abolition concerns, and also praises England for “sending” George Thompson as a representative to New England.  Parker ends the letter with these words:  “Dear  Friends, we boast a common ancestry and language; our hearts and our hopes too are one.  You, as well as ourselves, claim kindred with those ‘devout and honorable women’ the puritan mothers of New England.  They were wont to commend themselves to their friends in ‘the love of Christ’. Do we not the same when we say, yours in the love of freedom.  In behalf of the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Associations of New England.   (Liberator, April 30, 1836, pg 1)