Book/Printed Material Minutes of the adjourned session of the Twentieth Biennial American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race : held at Baltimore, Nov. 1828 Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy
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Image 1 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy MINUTES i OF THE ADJOURNED SESSION OF THE TWENTIETH BIENNIAL AMERICAN CONVENTION FOR PROMOTING THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY AND IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE AFRICAN RACE HELD AT BALTIMORE NOV 1828 Uhflatttlpiifa…
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- Date: 1828
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Image 2 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 1 tie f Danidl jiiura Washington D C 1925
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 3 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy MINUTES Hall of the Athenasum Baltimore Nov Srf 1828 10 oclock A M Pursuant to adjournment Convention met Present 17 dele gates viz From New York Israel Corse Mahlon Day Edmund Haviland…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 4 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 4 From which communications together with certificates pre sented it appears that the following are the Delegates ap pointed by the several Societies to represent them at this Ses sion vis New…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 5 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 5 Resolved That the present Session of this Convention be held with open doors and that spectators be freely admitted during its sittings On motion of W E Coale the following persons…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 6 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy G Christian Holmes Robert Bond William Holmes Isaac Pid geon Joseph Hackney and Thomas Wrightj Of whom William Holmes alone attended The communication was referred to the Committee of Ar rangement The…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 7 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 7 by as many of the citizens of their vicinity as practicable and forwarded to Congress praying the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia 5 Resolved That the Committee appointed…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 8 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 8 fcntion the following Standing Committees shall be appointed by the Convention and continued during its recess 1st A Committee on the African Slave Trade 2nd A Committee on Internal Slave Trade…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 9 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 9 B the President and Secretary be presented by the Secretary to each of those gentlemen The second Report of the Committee of Arrangement as fol lows was read c To the…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 10 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy Cl 10 Francis Burke E Haviland H Mankin and Joseph Daven port On motion T Shipley was chosen chairman of the commit tee The Committee appointed to attend to the duties of…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 11 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy l 2 DR THE AMERICAN CONVENTION IN ACCOUNT WITH JONAS PRESTON TREASURER CR 1827 10 th Mo 30th 11th Mo 10th 12th Mo 7 th 11th 1828 1st Mo 25th 2d Mo…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 12 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 12 M Day offered the following resolution Resolved That a committee be now appointed to examine the Treasurers account and report what sums may be neces sary to be raised for the…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 13 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 13 The following report was presented by the committee on the Treasurers account and adopted To the American Convention The committee appointed to examine the Treasurers ac count and report what sums…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 14 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 14 The following are the several committees appointed African Slave Trade Evan Lewis New York Isaac Barton Philadelphia David Harryman Baltimore Internal Slave Trade William E Coale Benjamin Lundy Baltimore Thomas Levering…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 15 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 15 I Present Messrs Corse Hariland Day AtLee Wilson Da venport Gardner Kesley Coale D Brown Preston Lun dy Needles Sliver Jones Burke Levering Holmes and Parker Information being given that 40…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 16 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 16 of the New York African Free School be published in the minutes of the Convention MAHLON DAY Chairman pro tem B Lundy presented the following resolution which being read was adopted…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 17 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 17 being read and considered by paragraphs was with some alte rations adopted as follows To the Citizens of the United States The American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 18 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 18 Columbia that a great majority of the inhabitants thereof are desirous for its total abolition Viewing the subject in this light we cannot for a moment hesitate in urging your atten…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 19 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 19 this very important subject We most earnestly beseech them to weigh well the consequences of tolerating within the limits of this District a system that has uniformly proved destructive to every…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 20 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 20 in many places for signatures which will in due season be laid before Congress It is also understood that efforts will soon be made by some of the members of that…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 21 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 21 the effects of education on the descendants of the despised Africans The committee would respectfully recommend to the Con vention that a copy of Cowpers poems be presented to George Allen…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 22 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 22 the greatest magnitude and importance that can gain the atten tion of this Convention That such a trade should be permitted to be practised by the Laws of the United States…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 23 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 23 knocked down gagged and severely whipped to intimidate and make her acknowledge herself a slave She was taken to the same place of deposite but apprehending it was to be searched…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 24 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 24 receiving and sending off the unfortunate objects of their cupi dity and so blunted has public opinion become from the long existence of this unhallowed traffic that individuals in the city…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 25 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 25 D Harryman offered the following Resolution which being read was adopted viz Whereas By a dispensation of Divine Providence this Con vention has been deprived of the attendance of their Vice…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 26 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 26 parts of South America by free labor These productions unstained by slavery may now be had in the cities of New York and Philadelphia and likewise at Wilmington in Delaware In…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 27 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 27 napPM ment and have raised large quantities of this article which has been disposed of to advantage in some of our Atlantic ports But the most particular account your committee have…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 28 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 29 To the Abolition Manumission and AntiSlavery Societies in the United States of America Fellow LabouersIn reviewing the labors of the several AntiSlaveiy Societies in the United States there ismuch to cheer…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 29 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy tubjcct repugnant to the best feelings of our nature anti in consistent with the rights and happiness of man We there fore urge the respective Societies to renewed exertions in be half…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 30 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 30 our Address last year particularly applicable to the present subject As an incipient step to the Abolition of Slavery we ear nestly recommend that immediate application be made to the Legislatures…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 31 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy rate their Slaves by removing them with their own consent to other lands where they may enjoy the rights and privileges of freemen Therefore Resolved That this Convention views with plea sure…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 32 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 32 to the members of the several Societies who compose it to give every encouragement in their power to the labor of Freemen in preference to that of Slaves particularly in the…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 33 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 33 subject of slavery in the District of Columbia reported the followingnot deeming it expedient at the present time to pre pare any thing respecting the territories To the Senate and House…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 34 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 34 constitutional extent sovereign and independent is readily admitted but that their independence is qualified by the fede ral constitution is equally certain No state has a right to injure or destroy…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 35 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy liously believing that this is the sentiment and expectation of the nation and believing furthermore that the example will be gradually followed by many of the southern States as the evils impolicy…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 36 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 36 COMMUNICATIONS From the New York Manumission Society To the American Convention to meet in Baltimore by adjourn ment on the 3d of eleventh month November 1828 The New York Manumission Society…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 37 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 37 scholars since the last meeting of the Convention We have now upwards of six hundred including males and females taught by able and experienced teachers The present average of daily attendance…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 38 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 38 from their native shores with brutal violence deprive them of the unalienable birthright of every being which bears the stamp of humanity deprive them of every motive and means of honourable…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 39 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 39 ties have in view If we were asked What is the first and most important requisite in paving the way for the total aholU tion of slavery we should answer education…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828
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Image 40 of Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy 40 retits more frequently to visit the institution Any additions to this collection from gentlemen at a distance will be thank fully received We have instructed our delegates to the Convention to…
- Contributor: American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
- Date: 1828