Maria Weston Chapman 
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/25/2022
Linda Hirshman Offers a Lively Dissection of the Competing Strains of American Abolitionism
by Drew Gilpin Faust
Hirshman focuses on the complex character of abolitionist editor Maria Weston Chapman, whose combination of moral fervor and racial prejudice pushed Frederick Douglass from the moralistic Garrisonian camp to a pragmatic and more effective strategy of political activism.
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