Saturday morning in November, Charles Sumner failed to appear at Phillips’ office, despite earlier promises. They had agreed the day before to escort Miss Greene together on a coach ride to nearby Greenfield in the company of a mutual friend, James Alvord, and his fiancée. Sumner, a reader of the Liberator, knew that Ann Greene belonged to the Female Anti-Slavery Society, believed in women’s rights, and had been trapped in the meeting hall by the Garrison mob the month before. Alvord had assured Sumner and Phillips that Ann Greene was attractive, bright, and plainspoken. Surely she and
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