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Table of Contents > Slavery & Black History > Lot 184 |
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Lot Number: 184
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Anti-Slavery Broadside "Call for a Convention" Launching the Republican Party in Boston, Massachusetts c. 1855 |
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c. 1855 Pre Civil War Anti-Slavery MASSACHUSETTS Broadside, "Call for a Convention", 1 page on a pale blue sheet,measuring 5" x 7.75", Boston,small fold repair on verso, with remnants of prior mounting, having a very clean well printed face for display, Very Fine. "The People of Massachusetts who are opposed to the extension of slavery, are requested to assemble in Public Primary Meetings in their several towns and cities, and elect delegates, in the proportion of three delegates for each representatives..."John M. Clark (1821-1902) was the recently elected Suffolk County Sheriff and organizer of the Convention. The Worcester Convention had been preceded by unsuccessful 1854-1855 efforts to overcome the bitter rivalry of the Massachusetts Know-Nothing and Free Soil Parties into a single Anti-Slavery movement. |
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Lot Number: 184
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