Remembering the 1835 MOB of ‘Gentlemen of Property & Standing’

SPECIAL NOTICE ! The friends of the Anti-Slavery cause are invited to assemble at Stacy Hall, 46 Washington street, on Sunday, October 21st, at 2 o’clock P. M., to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Day (October 21st., 1835) when a meeting of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, assembled on that very spot, was broken up by a M O B of ‘ Gentlemen of Property and Standing,‘ in the presence of the Mayor of the city. …Addresses will be delivered by Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Edmund Quincy, and others.
(Liberator, October 19, 1855, pg 2)