CONSTITUTION OF THE FEMALE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY OF SALEM, FORMED FEBRUARY 22, 1832
Signed by Mary A. Battys, President E.A. Drew, Vice President Charlotte Bell, Corredponding Sec’y
Hannah B. Fowler, Recording Sec’y Eleanor C. Harvey, Treasurer Dorothy C. Battys, Librarian
This is preceded by an item addressed from Salem, November 8, 1832, to Mr. Garrison –“ As you observed in your recent interesting address delivered in this town, that you had been informed there did not exist a single society among our color; this opportunity is improved to inform you of the existence of a Society which was probably unknown to your informant, and which was, as you will find by the enclosed, formed February 22, 1832; and there is also a remnant of a Female Society, formed 15 or 16 years since, which, if I am correctly informed is about to be recruited……………………….”
(Liberator, Nov. 17, 1832,pg 3)
