Anti-Slavery Convention, Cincinnati

March 24, 1854

Here is the fourth annual call for a gathering in regard to the Fugitive Slave Act.  “… deeds have been done in our midst that warn us not to relax our efforts.’…Our city, until within the past year, free from the deep disgrace of having sent back a poor fugitive to his chains, under the Fugitive Slave Act, now stand doubly degraded.”