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Minutes of the Proceedings of the Thirteenth American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery...

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09328 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Printed document Date: January 13, 1812 Pagination: 48 p. : Order a Copy

"Minutes of the Proceedings of the Thirteenth American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and Improving the Condition of the African Race Assembled at Philadelphia..." Reports on schools for African-Americans, kidnapping, arrests of fugitive slaves, the African slave trade and the detention of ships engaged in the trade, and prints correspondence with London's African Institution. Representatives of the Manumission Society of New-York, the Abolition Societies of Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey attended the meeting, chaired by Thomas Pym Cope, prominent Philadelphia Quaker merchant.

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