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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC09381.01 |
| From Archive Folder | Minutes Of The Proceedings Of Conventions of Delegates From The Abolition Societies Established in different Parts of the United States |
| Title | Minutes Of The Proceedings Of A Convention of Delegates From The Abolition Societies Established in different Parts of the United States... |
| Date | 1794 |
| Document Type | Pamphlet; Non-governmental organization document |
| Content Description | Minutes Of The Proceedings Of A Convention of Delegates From The Abolition Societies Established in different Parts of the United States, Assembled at Philadelphia, On The First Day Of January, One Thousand Seven Hundred And Ninety-Four… Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, Jr. 30 pp. [The first nationally based anti-slavery organization.] Contains manuscript anti-slavery poem in a contemporary hand on front free endpaper: "'I would not have a Slave to till my Ground / …And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth, / …ever earn'd. / No: dear as Freedom is, and / … priz'd above all price, / I had much rather be myself the Slave / And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him.'" |
| Subjects | Abolition Reform Movement African American History Poetry Slavery |
| Place written | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Theme | African Americans; Slavery & Abolition |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |