Category: <span>Anti-Slavery Organizations</span>

A long article, by the above title, ends on the second page, with these words:  “What  Must Be Done? … There are three modes in which slavery can be overthrown:…

1832 Anti-Slavery Organizations

The Liberator :—-EXTRA.  Two page almost entirely devoted to the formation of and constitution of the Boston Young Men’s Anti-Slavery Association  —– an interesting by-line says:   “That which is wrong in…

1833 Anti-Slavery Organizations

Declaration of the National Anti-Slavery Convention with signatures , Dec 4, 1833,  in Philadelphia

1833 Anti-Slavery Organizations

Notice of opening of New England Anti-Slavery Society, at 46 Washington St., Boston

1834 Anti-Slavery Organizations Anti-Slavery Society - New England

Notice of and constitution of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society

1834 Anti-Slavery Organizations Females

Includes a notice of the dissolution of the Copartnership of Knapp & Garrison, “by mutual consent”. With an introduction to the new volume, Garrison recites some the history of abolition,…

1836 Anti-Slavery Organizations Colonization, Anti-colonization Knapp, Isaac Liberator

1836 Anti-Slavery Organizations Rhode Island

1836 Anti-Slavery Organizations Anti-Slavery Society - New England

1836 Anti-Slavery Organizations

This issue includes a Circular from Pennsylvania, calling upon people to become Immediatists, with the names of well over four hundred individuals.

1836 Anti-Slavery Organizations

Under a heading,   Children of Boston, March 25, 1837, note addressed to Garrison, and signed by H.C. Wright, Children’s Agent, tells of a meeting of the Juvenile Anti-Slavery Society, at…

1837 Anti-Slavery Organizations Juvenile Department Wright, Henry

1837 Anti-Slavery Organizations Females

Mary Parker, President and Maria Weston Chapman, Cor. Sec. write to Female Anti-Slavery Societies throughout New England.  The letter commends Sarah and Angelina Grimke for their continued work against slavery,…

1837 Anti-Slavery Organizations Chapman, Maria Weston Females Grimke, Angelina & Sarah

1837 Anti-Slavery Organizations Liberator

1837 Anti-Slavery Organizations Churches Prejudice

1838 Anti-Slavery Organizations Fanueil Hall Freedom of Speech Lovejoy, Elijah

1838 Anti-Slavery Organizations Cent-A-Week Societies

A list of 232 AA Societies, shown by Massachusetts Counties, and towns, with Pres., and Sec. names for each, and number of members in each

1838 Anti-Slavery Organizations

1838 Anti-Slavery Organizations Females Nantucket

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1839 Anti-Slavery Organizations Wright, Elizur

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1839 Anti-Slavery Organizations Wright, Elizur

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1839 Abolition Society - Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Organizations

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1839 Anti-Slavery Organizations Anti-Slavery Society - Massachusetts - female support

A. L. Haskell, writes from Newburyport, July 20th:   ” I find the most of our anti-slavery friends firmly united to the parent society, the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society….” Then he tells…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1839 Anti-Slavery Organizations Colonization, Anti-colonization

A notice appears about a two-day meeting of the Essex County Anti-Slavery Society, to be held in Lynn. Calls for a “strong rallying”; …”Let them evince that abolitionism has indeed…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1840 Anti-Slavery Organizations Essex County

The following resolution was adopted by the Vermont ASS: “That those ministers who, with all the light they now enjoy in regard to the sinfullness of the slaveholder, and the…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1840 Anti-Slavery Organizations Churches Vermont

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1840 Anti-Slavery Organizations Legislatures of North & South Massachusetts Legislature

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1840 Anti-Slavery Organizations Females

A letter appears from Garrison, upon his return from London: “On the London Convention I shall speak without reserve in future numbers of The Liberator.  It was anything but a…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1840 Anti-Slavery Organizations London Convention

Notice of the party meeting, deferred until February, hoping for the largest “anti-slavery meeting ever assembled in Boston.

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1841 Anti-Slavery Organizations Liberty Party

March 5, 1836 In a letter from Brooklyn, Ct, Feb 10, 1836, written to Mr. Oliver Johnson, Garrison indicates that he cannot attend the meeting of the Vermont Anti Slavery…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1836 Anti-Slavery Organizations Slavery

May 28, 1836  This issue includes an account of the Convention of the NEASS

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1836 Anti-Slavery Organizations Anti-Slavery Society - New England

February 18, 1842 This meeting, held in the Representatives’ Hall, began at an early evening hour, and continued until almost eleven.  Speakers included Remond,  Phillips, Frederick Douglass, Abby Kelley, and…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1842 Anti-Slavery Organizations Douglass, Frederick Kelley, Abby Phillips, Wendell Remond, Lenox

February 25, 1842 Notes of a meeting of the Essex County A.S. Society, Feb 8, 1842.  A resolution presented by Garrison, calling for disunion, debated, and in evening session, finally…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1842 Anti-Slavery Organizations Disunion Essex County

March 18, 1842  The Executive Committee of the Rhode Island State Anti-Slavery Society has voted resolutions calling for the state to remove from its Constitution the word “white”, which restricts…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1842 Anti-Slavery Organizations Rhode Island Suffrage

September 16, 1842 Here is a record of an Essex County Conference, August 18, held in Andover.  “Reports were listened to from societies in Boston, Cambridge, Danvers, Andover, Reading, Haverhill,…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1842 Anti-Slavery Organizations Females

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1843 Anti-Slavery Organizations Latimer, George Petition Drives

March 17, 1843     Commenting on a copy of the Third Annual Report of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, here is the following:  “Referring to the treachery of the…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1843 Anti-Slavery Organizations British Abolition

July 14, 1843 Here is a notice that arrangements have been made for holding one hundred Anti- Slavery Conventions within the next six months, listing parts of the country,  chiefly in New…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1843 Anti-Slavery Organizations

August 11, 1843 In an item addressed to the Essex County Anti-Slavery Conference,  Chapman here pleas for financial support for the cause.  She indicates that her letter is in behalf…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1843 Anti-Slavery Organizations Chapman, Maria Weston Females

March 22, 1844 Here is an announcement of one hundred conventions to be held in Massachusetts, listing the towns and dates for each (usual two days each), and indicating some…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1844 Anti-Slavery Organizations

December 3, 1847 “This is the season when Sewing Circles should flourish most ….Sewing Circles are among the best means for agitating and keeping alive the question of anti-slavery.  ….…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1847 Anti-Slavery Organizations

June 29, 1849 From Westminster, June 22, from Alfred Wyman:  “I send you $5.00 as a donation to the Mass. A.S. Society.  It is but a small amount, considering he…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1849 Anti-Slavery Organizations

August 23, 1850 A notice of conventions to be held, pursuant to a resolution at the recent New England Anti-Slavery Convention: It lists meetings to be held in Rutland (Worcester…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1850 Anti-Slavery Organizations

November 7, 1851 Henry C. Wright, writes from Indiana, where he has attended a Women’s Convention.  The Convention has adopted several strong anti-slavery resolutions. One Methodist leader, Bible in hand,…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1851 Anti-Slavery Organizations Churches Females

April 30, 1852 Notice of the formation of this Society, formed at Rochester, N.Y., “on an independent basis”.   Gerrit Smith is President.

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1852 Anti-Slavery Organizations Smith, Gerrit

April 30, 1852 Parker Pillsbury writes that “we have just closed a fatiquing and  every way trying campaign in Maine.  “In Portland we had meetings of a truly cheering character.…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1852 Anti-Slavery Organizations Pillsbury, Parker

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1852 Anti-Slavery Organizations Clarke, James Freeman

July 16, 1852 The Anti-Slavery office has been robbed.  Fifty dollars is gone, more than three-fourths of which belonged to the Liberator.  It is a “loss we are not well…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1852 Anti-Slavery Organizations Liberator

July 30, 1852 Daniel Foster writes to Garrison, describing large encouraging meetings at Nantucket.

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