Invitation for "the citizens of Boston" to assemble October 14 [no year given] at Faneuil Hall to discuss the "condition of the Fugitive Slaves, and the colored persons of this city, under the new Fugitive Slave Law." Signed by Josiah Quincy, J....
Minutes from the meeting of the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts A. S. [Anti-Slavery] Society, December 27, 1888 [1838], in which Henry B. Stanton is appointed General Agent of the Society.
Recommendation for Massachusetts Governor Marcus Morton to appoint Amos B. Merrill of Boston to the position of agent under the "resolves relating to the imprisonment of citizens of this commonwealth in other states" of March 24, 1843. List of...
Printed invitation from "a number of Young Men, unconnected, at this time, with any organization" of Boston [Massachusetts] to Lysander Spooner to attend a public convention meeting on December 3, 1860, to discuss the abolition of slavery.
Signed petition addressed the the Mayor and Alderman [of Boston, Massachusetts] to deny a particular group the use of Faneuil Hall on the grounds that "the meeting to be of such an exciting character as to endanger the peace of the City." The...
Manuscript letter in the hand of Wiliam Lloyd Garrison, for publication to advertise a "mass celebration" of the anniversary of the emanciaption of 800,000 slaves to the West India Islands [undated, but probably 1846]. On back in red, "Insert this...
Twenty-five page manuscript letter by George W. Putnam addressed to the Agency Committee of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Soceity, Wendell Phillips, Francis Jackson, and Samuel Philbrick, for publication in The Liberator, defending his...
List of donors, most by name and some with their place of residence [probably to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] during a May 29, 1839 meeting at Charden [?] Street.
List of 24 Massachusetts citizens who agreed to take slaves "let against their names." Includes the number of slaves for each person. On back, a proposition for the erection of a "spacious hall in which free decision may be had," with subscription...
Resolution by the American Anti-Slavery Society stating that members for the present year [undated] pledge the minimum sum of one dollar, and that their names be published weekly in the [National] Anti-Slavery Standard.
Four-page letter from Theodore D. Weld to his sister [probably Sarah Grimke] regarding the advisory contents of his previous letter, also dated September 6, 1837. Addressed to both Sarah and Angelina Grimke in Boston [Massachussets].
Letter from John A. Collins, Henry W. Williams and [missing from bottom of page], committee members of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Boston, inviting Increase S. Smith, from Hingham, Massachusetts, to pariticipate in the eleventh...
Unsigned letter addressed to Mr. Blanchard regarding building plans for the "Copeland Estate at Quincy," discussing the construction of basements and cellars underneath a particular building. Dated Boston, Mary 1856. On back, extensive list of...
Abolitionists--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--New York (State)--New York; Antislavery movements--New York (State)--New York
Letter from Francis Jackson of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society to Lewis Tappan, Samuel E. Cornish, and Simon S. Jocelyn [in New York City], listing approximately 85 members from Massachusetts who will attend the 4th anniversary of the...
