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Resolves relating to Slavery & the Slave Trade & the admission of new States into the Union.

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Title	Resolves relating to Slavery & the Slave Trade & the admission of new States into the Union.
Collection title	Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society records, 1850-1858
Item ID	nyhs_mass_257
Date of original	1840-03-23
Creator	Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Contributors	Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1809-1894 Jackson, Edmund
Institution	New-York Historical Society
Description	Resolution produced by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that the United States Congress must abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. Includes note that the "resolves were passed by the House in the 21st, & by the Senate of the 23 March" and that the resolutions are the same that are referred to in the letters of E. Jackson and R. C. Winthrop.
Subject	Abolitionists--United States Antislavery movements--United States Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston Slavery--Law and legislation--Washington (D.C.)
Material type of original	Resolutions (administrative records)
Publisher of digital	New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West New York, NY 10024 212-873-3400
Rights management	This digital image may be used for educational or scholarly purposes without restriction. Commercial and other uses of the item are prohibited without prior written permission from the New-York Historical Society. Please visit the New-York Historical Society's Rights and Reproductions Department web page at http://www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions for more information.

Title	nyhs_mass_257-001
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