ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING in the OLD CRADLE OF LIBERTY !! A meeting of the CITIZENS OF BOSTON AND VICINITY will be held THIS DAY, (Friday, January 28) in FANEUIL HALL, at…
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This Association shall be the North Abington Church Anti-Slavery Society. Officers elected: Rev. Willard Pierce, ,President; Dea. Samuel Wales, Vice President; Dea. James Ford, Secretary; Executive Committee: Mr. Solomon Ford,…
June 2, 1865 More than two full pages of speeches as the AASS considers its continuance. With the decision made not to dissolve the organization, there is a Nominating Committee…
May 26, 1865 Two full pages includes speeches for and against a motion of dissolution of the AASS. The account concludes with assurance that it will be concluded next week.
May 8, 1865 Difficult to summarize, too long to quote, the editor advocates for the dissolution of the AAS. There are then quotes from two papers, the Commonwealth, and the…
April 28, 1865 Here is a letter from Wendell Phillips, and then an article from the Anti-Slavery Standard, indicating some of the arguments which are current as members discuss the…
December 18, 1863 The meeting was held at the Concert Hall, Philadelphia, and here the article includes speeches by many leaders of the movement. In his introductory remarks, Garrison, predicts…
October 23, 1863 One again, here is the petition, sponsored by the Loyal Women of The Republic, through their National Association, calling upon the Congress to enact emancipation of all…
February 8, 1861 This article recounts a debate in the Massachusetts House of Representatives over a motion to allow the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society the use of Representatives Hall, in consequence…
February 1, 1861 Garrison’s letter indicates that he has been ill eighteen days, and that today’s meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society will be the first of its annual meetings…
December 14, 1860 A long article, signed by C.K.W., gives a detailed account of the event, including an account of the re-convened meeting at the Joy Street church. Among those…
December 7, 1860 The meeting was to be an anniversary of the Martyrdom of John Brown, to be held at Tremont Temple. The content of the long article is captured in…
March 25, 1859 An account of a Convention, recently held in Worcester, in which fifty clergymen and laymen formed The Church Anti-Slavery Society of the United States. They could not…
October 24, 1856 A letter to Garrison, from Henry C. Wright, tells of an Anti-Slavery Convention, in which a resolution was passed urging disunion. “The people of the non-slaveholding states…
January 4, 1856 A letter to Garrison, comes from Charles E. Mickley, writing from Fairfield, Lenawee Co. Michigan. He reports the proceedings of an Anti-Slavery meeting, knowing that “friends of…
June 1, 1855 Notice of a meeting to be held in Concord. “The signs of the times indicate the approach of a grand Moral and Political Revolution, which shall array…
December 1, 1854 A letter to Garrison, from W. H. Fish, no address given, (Worcester area assumed) tells of a social gathering of abolitionists in Blackstone, an Anti-Slavery Social Party. …
November 10, 1854 A notice to the Friends of the paper, signed by Wendell Phillips, and Francis Jackson, and an action of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society,…
November 11, 1853 At a recent meeting in Adrian, Michigan, the new Society was formed, with a constitution, and officers elected, and resolutions presented by Garrison, were adopted.
February 11, 1853 A speech by Higginson, at Faneuil Hall, during the recent MASS annual meeting. “… I should speak on agitation, and not of agitators…. agitation is destined to…
July 30, 1852 Daniel Foster writes to Garrison, describing large encouraging meetings at Nantucket.
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…
July 2, 1852 From the National Era, comes a copy of James Freeman Clark’s plan for a new Anti-Slavery organization. The intent is to unite all abolitionists, who have in…
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.…
April 30, 1852 Notice of the formation of this Society, formed at Rochester, N.Y., “on an independent basis”. Gerrit Smith is President.
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,…
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…
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…
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. ….…
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…
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…
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…
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…
February 3, 1843 Resolutions in support of petitions in the Latimer case, and a resolution for the liberation of three men, including George Thompson, jailed in Missouri for helping a slave…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
May 28, 1836 This issue includes an account of the Convention of the NEASS
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…
Notice of the party meeting, deferred until February, hoping for the largest “anti-slavery meeting ever assembled in Boston.
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…
Between May 8 and May 15, 1840 there is a special four page edition of the Liberator, devoted to the proceedings of the sixth annual meeting of the Boston Female…
Here is a long two-column listing of petitions presented, with the names of lead petitioners, indicating the number of signers, and towns from which they come. Petitions cover a range…
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…
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…
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…
A July 22, meeting of the Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society says, “….we do entirely approve the course which the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society has taken, and that our confidence in its…
This is a notice from Zion’s Herald, signed in Boston, May 31, by Dan’l Wise; It is clearly in support of the new Massachusetts Abolition Society, and interestingly placed in…
Here is a notice from the Managers addressed to The Abolitionists of Massachusetts. This is in response to Elizur Wright, who has claimed that the Society has virtually given its…