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On back cover is a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier entitled "To William Lloyd Garrison." The Providence Anti-Slavery Society became a state branch of the William Lloyd Garrison's New England Anti-Slavery Society by 1836.
Excerpt from The Report and Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Providence Anti-Slavery Society: With a Brief Exposition of the Principles and Purposes of the Abolitionists Are there any here who would damp our ardor by reminding us that every where the project, in which We have engaged, is opposed - the very name We bear cast out as evil, and our sentiments denounced as fanatical, incendiary and treasonable? Let them tell us, if they can, what great moral reformation was ever undertaken, which did not arouse opposition, violent in proportion to the inveteracy of the Wick edness to be overborne, and the determination with which its strong holds were assailed! It is indeed the best...
Excerpt from Constitution of the Baptist Anti-Slavery Society, Providence: Formed December 12, 1839; With an Address to the First, Second, Third and Fourth Baptist Churches Art. 4. The officers of this Society shall be a President, two Vice Presidents, a Secretary, Treasurer, and an Executive Committee of five, Who together shall f01m a Board of Managers, whose duty it shall be to hold stated meetings, and adopt prudent, energetic and Christian meas ures to advance the object of the Society, five of whom, regularly convened, shall form a quorum for the transaction of business. And in case of any vacancy in their body, they shall have power to fillthe same. About the Publisher Forgotten Books...
This book covers the gamut of antislavery activism from a local perspective and it does so from the perspective of women, who have been underrepresented throughout abolitionist history.
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