State Street here, the financial district of Boston, with ties to southern pro-slavery interests.
aver to declare to be true.
woolsack a cushion stuffed with wool, on which the British Lord Chancellor sits in the House of Lords.
Unitarian a person who denies the doctrine of the Trinity and the divinity of Jesus, maintaining that God is a single being.
naïf (French) naïve; unaffectedly, or sometimes foolishly, simple.
desultory disconnected; passing from one thing to another in an aimless way.
