ANTI-SLAVERY CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH OF JULY
The Managers of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society hereby announce to the friends of Freedom an Equal Rights in the Commonwealth, that a MASS MEETING will be held, as usual, in the beautiful and commodious Grove at FRAMINGHAM, on the ensuing FOURTH OF JULY; the laudable design of which is to rescue that anniversary from the ordinary popular desecration, and so consecrate it to the cause of impartial and universal liberty, by striking a mortal blow at the existence of slavery in our land; and to which all who ‘despise fraud and loathe rapine, and abhor blood,’ and who ‘reject with indignation the wild and guilty fantasy that man can hold property in man,’ are cordially invited…………..
(Liberator, July 4, 1856, pg 2)
