"Holograph, signed. Mary Ann White Johnson declines an invitation to a Boston anti-slavery fair. In referring to Sing Sing prison, Johnson says: \"I detest the whole prison system, and believe more firmly than ever that such establishments are wholly unnecessary.\""
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"Letter from Mary Ann White Johnson, Sing Sing, [New York], to Maria Weston Chapman, November 24, 1844"
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creators
"Johnson, Mary Ann White, 1808-1872 (Author); Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885 (Addressee)"
