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- GLC#
- GLC06593.20-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- circa 1840-1841
- Title
- [Minutes of an Anti-Slavery Society meeting, related to the formation of the Liberty Party]
- Place Written
- New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 31.2 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Names officers for the society, including J.C. Jackson (possibly the abolitionist James Caleb Jackson). Mentions passing three resolutions. In left margin, notes that another resolution will be discussed in the evening. Written in ink. At the bottom of the page, contains a resolution written in graphite: "Resolved, That the present position & movements of the two great political parties of the day are such as to promise no hope to the Friends of Liberty, & that these circumstances fully justify the organization of a Liberty party." Circa date and location inferred from content.
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