[Constitution for the "Westfield Free Produce association of friends"]

GLC09382.02

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GLC#
GLC09382.02
Type
Documents
Date
circa 1840-1842
Title
[Constitution for the "Westfield Free Produce association of friends"]
Place Written
Westfield, Indiana
Pagination
2 p. :
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

The constitution for the "Westfield Free Produce association of friends," to boycott slave- produced goods for three years. Begins: "We believe that slaveholding is diametrically opposite to the whole spirit and tenor of the christian religion; and that while it sustains that traffic in slaves, it is mainly supported by the traffic in & the consumption of the production, of slave labor. In order, therefore, to promote the use and facilitate the acquirement of goods supplied by free labor, we unite in an association…"

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