Chapman, Maria (1806–1885)
Chapman, Maria (1806–1885)
American abolitionist. Born Maria Weston in Weymouth, Massachusetts, July 25, 1806; died July 12, 1885, in Weymouth; educated in Europe; m. Henry G. Chapman (liberal merchant), Oct 1830 (died 1842); lived in Paris, 1844–55; children: 3.
Helped found the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (1832), editing its annual report Right and Wrong in Boston, and occasionally editing William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator; was a supporter of the Grimké sisters and wrote the biography of Harriet Martineau (1877).
See also Women in World History.
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