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[Notes pertaining to anti-slavery]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06593.21 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York Type: Manuscript document Date: circa 1841 Pagination: 1 p. ; 15.3 x 10 cm. Order a Copy

List of items related to anti-slavery. Also contains index citations for an unspecified document or volume. One note asserts, "A. S. Society aims to destroy the Colonization Soc." Other notes refer to the degradation of enslaved people, the Colonization Society having beginnings in the South, and other topics.

Jackson, James Caleb, 1811-1895

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