Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?

Via friend-of-the-blog John Fea's blog The Way of Improvement Leads Home, an image from the new Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions:





I'm no presentist, but I can't understand how any father or mother or brother or sister or son or daughter could remain immune to such propaganda. [Propaganda wasn't always a bad word, you know.]

It must have been hard.