Online access and copy requests are not available for this item. You may request to be notified of when this becomes available digitally.
- GLC#
- GLC09381.01
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1794
- Title
- Minutes Of The Proceedings Of A Convention of Delegates From The Abolition Societies Established in different Parts of the United States...
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 30 p. :
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Minutes Of The Proceedings Of A Convention of Delegates From The Abolition Societies Established in different Parts of the United States, Assembled at Philadelphia, On The First Day Of January, One Thousand Seven Hundred And Ninety-Four… Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, Jr. 30 pp. [The first nationally based anti-slavery organization.] Contains manuscript anti-slavery poem in a contemporary hand on front free endpaper: "'I would not have a Slave to till my Ground / …And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth, / …ever earn'd. / No: dear as Freedom is, and / … priz'd above all price, / I had much rather be myself the Slave / And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him.'"
Citation Guidelines for Online Resources
- Copyright Notice
- The copyright law of the United States (title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specific conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research.” If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use,” that user may be liable for copyright infringement. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.