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- Resolves relating to Slavery & the Slave Trade & the admission of new States into the Union.
- Resolution produced by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that the United States Congress must abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. Includes note that the "resolves were passed by the House in the 21st, & by the Senate of the 23 March" and that the resolutions are the same that are referred to in the letters of E. Jackson and R. C. Winthrop.
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- List of 108 names to petition for use of Faneuil Hall
- Signed petition of 108 names for the use of Feneuil Hall [Boston, Massachusetts] in January 1839 for a gathering [probably for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society].
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- Copy of a correspondence between Edmund Jackson & Hon. Robt. C. Winthrop in 1840
- Manuscript copy of a correspondence between Edmund Jackson and Hon. Robert C. Winthorp, in which Jackson asks for Winthorp's position on slavery before his election to United States Congress. Includes Winthorp's response dated November 2, 1840, in which he replies that he "cannot regard it as desirable or expedient to attempt any alteration of the Constitution in relation to slavery."
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- Circular
- Printed circular by Elizur Wright, Jr., Secretary of the Anti-Texas Committee, asking Massachusetts citizens to collect signatures for petitions against the admittance of Texas into the Union as a Slave state. On back, list of ca. 40 names of participants.
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- [Two resolutions condemning the "system of slavery"]
- Two unsigned and undated resolutions on one page [from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] condemning the "system of slavery."
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- Petition to Gov. to fill the office of Agt. For Col'd Seamen
- Petition [from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] to Massachusetts Governor Marcus Morton to appoint Amos B. Merrill to act as an agent for "colored seamen" in the ports of Charleston [South Carolina] and New Orleans [Louisiana].
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- History of Mass. Anti Slav Society
- Two-page unsigned and undated manuscript history of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, organized by meeting. Includes names of organizers, dates of meetings, and summary.
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- S. E. Sewall's Draft of a Petition
- Undated draft of a petition by S. E. Sewall to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives to condemn the imprisonment of African American sailors when docked in particular United States ports.
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- [Draft of circular letter from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society]
- Draft of letter from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society to S. E. Sewall regarding gathering signatures for petitions oppsoing the Texas Constitution's endorsement of slavery.
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- Contribution of the Churches in Mass for Fugitive Slaves
- List of donations [to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] from ca. 110 people belonging to various churches. Divided into columns labeled Orthodox, Baptists, Methodist, and Unitarian. Some of the names included in the list are: James Trask Woodbury, G. Buckingham Wilcox, Giles Pease; E. A. (Edward Ainsley) Stockman, Abijah Stowell, Benjamin Whitmore, Luther Sheldon, Asaph Meriam, C. T. Tucker, and Charles Manning Bowers.
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- Phelps resolution
- Resolution supporting the anti-slavery movement.
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- The Role of Infamy
- Unsigned and undated two-page manuscript regarding the return of Anthony Burns to slavery, and the wrongful circumstances of his arrest and trial.
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- The Problem of the Free Negroes. A few thoughts upon the proposed solution of it.
- Unsigned and undated six-page memoranda in support of slave colonization to Liberia.
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- Liberator Circular
- Manuscript draft of a [Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] circular to solicit donations to operate the anti-slavery publication The Liberator.
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- A. S. Petition for the rights of the Col'd Citizen
- Petition letter [from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] asking the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to protest in United States Supreme Court against the wrongful imprisonment of "colored citizens" employed on trade ships arriving at the ports of slaveholding states.
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- [Letter to the Editor of thePost arguing for the abolishment of slavery]
- Unsigned and undated draft of a note addressed "to the Ed. Of the [] Post" arguing for the abolishment of slavery.
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- Bradburns Petition
- Unsigned and undated petition to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives to condemn the imprisonment of African American sailors when docked in particular United States ports.
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- Old debts paid
- List of "old debts paid" [probably costs for the abolitionist publication The Liberator].
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- Resolutions against 1838 Gag Law
- resolutions agreed upon during a January 25, 1838, Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society meeting criticizing the Congressional Gag Law and slaveholding in general.
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- [Letter from Edmund Quincy to J. Otis Williams]
- Letter from Edmund Quincy to J. [] Williams, a librarian for the Public Library in Dedham [Massachusetts], in response to his request for volumes of literature produced by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.
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- [Resolutions in arguing for the abolishment of slavery]
- Six pages of unsinged and undated drafts of resolutions in arguing for the abolishment of slavery.
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- Miss Martineau's Martyr age
- Undated editorial letter addressed to "the editor of the Courier" regarding Miss [Harriet] Martineau's Martyr Age [in the United States], vindicating her support of the abolitionist movement. Signed "Xenius."
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- Legislative Resolutions drawn up by E. G. Loring & passed by the Legislature with trifling amendments
- Undated draft of a legislative resolutions by E. G. Loring in support of the abolishment of slavery.
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- [Petition against the removal of Judge Edward G. Loring from office]
- Manuscript copy of a signed petition against the removal of Judge Edward G. Loring from office.
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- Permit of the Mayor to use Faneuil Hall for a public meeting on the 30 Oct. 1842
- Permit for the use of Faneuil Hall [in Boston, Massachusetts] for public assembly, granted by Mayor Jonathan Chapman [probably to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society].
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- Pledges for Liberator, 1839
- Letter from Hamlett Bates in Boston to [secretary of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] friend [James Caleb] Jackson, listing unpaid pledges made to The Liberator in 1839 and identifying those that may be collected.
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- Explanation. To the Editor of the Abolitionist.
- Unsigned and undated manuscript draft of letter addressed to the Editor of the Abolitionist reagrding a funding dispute between the Massacuhsetts Anti-Slavery Society and Isaac Knapp.
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- Charles Warren's communication to Public Meeting 1846
- Three-page resolution submitted by Charles Warren presented to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society opposing the admittance of Texas into the Union as a Slave state.
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- July 1849
- List of donors to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in July 1849.