Third Annual Report from New England Antislavery Society Led by William S Garrison
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Third Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. Boston: Garrison and Knapp, 1835. Scarce. First edition. 8.5" x 5" inches. 23 pages. Later plain tan wrappers. The New-England Anti-Slavery Society was formed in 1831 by William Lloyd Garrison, editor of The Liberator, which also served as its official publication. The society spawned a number of state-based organizations, and these were organized into American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1835, the New England Society gave up its regional jurisdiction and reorganized into the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Contains the Constitution of the Society; an account of the elected officers, Garrison among them; also, a list of subscriptions and donations (with amounts donated); a treasurer's report; and, lists of life-time and honorary members, including Garrison, Moses Brown, Thomas Clarkson, Josiah Wedgewood, and William Wilberforce. The Society closes their report with a passage indicating they felt the winds of history at their back: "Thousands and tens of thousands of conscientious persons, are already beginning to look upon slaveholding in its true light, as an atrocious crime. This opinion will inevitably continue to spread and gain ground, till it has embraced the great mass of the nation... The number of persons who emancipate their slaves from conscientious motives, will every year increase; but long before slavery is put an end to by the gradual work of individual emancipation, it will have been abolished by the State legislatures." In very good condition.Item #17752
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