The 1830s were the heyday of the formation of anti-slavery societies, with associations established at town, county, and state levels. This is a notice calling for delegates to attend the annual meeting of the Franklin County (Massachusetts) Anti-Slavery Society which was formed in 1836. The speakers for this meeting included James G. Birney (1792-1857), who was born in the slave state of Kentucky and founded the abolitionist newspaper the Philanthropist in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1836. Other speakers were Reverend Nathaniel Colver from the First Free Baptist Church in Boston, Massachusetts, and Henry B. Stanton (1805-1887), who married suffragette Elizabeth Cady in 1840. The Gazette & Mercury was the newspaper in Greenfield, Massachusetts, from June 27, 1837, to July 13, 1841, when it changed its name to the Gazette & Courier.
Greenfield Gazette and Mercury. “County Anti-Slavery Meeting.” December 26, 1837. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l05-016/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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