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5 November 1852
Smith, Gerrit
To the voters of Oswego and Madison counties New York
Thanking them for electing him to a seat in Congress, and reprising his anti-slavery, pro-equality platform.
GLC09329.02
1 December 1859
[Abolitionist broadside]
Abolitionist broadside endorsed "Distributed in the streets of Boston Thursday evening Dec.1, 1859, the day before the execution of John Brown." Bold text reads: "Let their epitaphs remain unwritten until the not distant day when no slave shall clank...
GLC09332
16 November 1846
Brown, Neill (fl. 1846)
to a cousin
[Slavery] From Cleveland, Ohio to a cousin in North Carolina: "I am here surrounded by abolitionists, yea in the very hot bed of this class of people.… Three weeks since there was a negroe woman who said she was a fugitive slave from Mississippi, got...
GLC09373
1840-1842
A Record of the Proceedings of the Executive Committee of the Hamilton County Anti-Slavery Society
Westfield, IN. Primarily concerned with the founding of the Society's library, with a budget of fifteen dollars for books, entries record a "code of rules for the regulation of the Library," day-to-day logistics, including places and times for...
GLC09382.01
circa 1840-1842
[Constitution for the "Westfield Free Produce association of friends"]
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...
GLC09382.02
26 August 1848
Nickless, Samuel
[Invitation to speak]
Samuel Nickless, treasurer of William Still's Philadelphia Vigilance Committee, part of the Underground Railroad, asks an unnamed lecturer to come and speak: "The members of the 2nd African Presbyterian Church take the liberty of asking you to give...
GLC09396
16 March 1944
Weiner, Sylvia (1912-2008)
to Morris "Moe" Weiner
Sylvia talks about the history of labor unions
GLC09414.0204
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