Letter, Susan B Anthony to Aunt Ann Eliza, July 15,1853 pages 3-4

A letter from Susan B Anthony to her Aunt Ann Eliza, dated July 15, 1853. Offering condolences on the recent loss of a child, Anthony writes, "How infinitely happier is your lot, than that of the poor Slave Mother, who sees her darling child torn from her, placed upon the auction block & sold to the highest bidder, to become in her turn the wretched victim of a Master's brutal passions & a Mistress' cruel jealousy. The deep affliction, the sore trial you are now called to suffer, is but as a drop in the bucket when compared with that of the crushed and bleeding Slave Mother." (National Susan B Anthony Museum & House Collection)