Raynors HCA 2015-05
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A rare ca. 1840 Anti-Slavery Society printed letter/circular requesting attendance at their Massachusetts conventions to be held to Worcester and Springfield where abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and others were to speak on the subject of slavery while also reminding the recipient that he should vote against any presidential candidate who was pro-slavery in the 1840 election. Printed on thin tissue paper, 2pp. 8vo., folded into a stampless transmittal cover, "Anti-Slavery Rooms, Boston, Sept. 14, 1840" reading, in small part: "The undersigned…appointed by the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts A. S. Society…earnestly invite your attendance at two State conventions…these conventions will be of great importance in their bearing upon the anti-slavery enterprise…throughout the country…the subjects which will…be discussed are of immense practical importance at the present crisis, viz; the duty of anti-slavery voters to withhold their support from pro-slavery candidates at the coming state and Presidential elections…we ask not only you attend…but to urge the attendance of many professed abolitionists to sacrifice their principles to party…[and] all that can be done by way of remonstration…warning and rebuke…[be made to]…any individual who professes attachment to the cause of the slave…we hope to see the Abolitionists…coming up to these conventions by hundreds…Mess. Garrison and Rogers will be present…Respectfully yours for the Slave, J. A. Collins, H. G. Chapman, Oliver Johnson, Committee [members] of Arrangement." Addressed to "Augustus Moulton & Co., Beverly, Mass." and cancelled with a circular "Boston, Sept. 20" postal mark. Archive repairs with negligible paper loss effecting several words of the text from wax seal closure, minor spotting, else VG.
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