[The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) by Ida Husted Harper]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) CHAPTER III 14/32
Her arm commenced bleeding in the night and she lost so much blood she fainted.
Next day the Doctor came, applied a blister and gave her another dose of calomel." She meets some colored girls from the school at Oneida and writes home: "A strict Presbyterian school it is, but they eat, walk and associate with the white people.
O, what a happy state of things is this, to see these poor, degraded sons of Afric privileged to walk by our side." On Sunday she hears Stephen Archer, the great Quaker preacher, who was at the head of a large Friends' boarding-school at Tarrytown, and says: He is a much younger man than I expected to see, and wears a sweet smile on his face....
The people about here are anti-Abolitionist and anti-everything else that's good.
The Friends raised quite a fuss about a colored man sitting in the meeting-house, and some left on account of it.
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