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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) At a Special General Meeting of the Newcastle upon Tyne Anti-Slavery Society. Letterpress broadside, 15 x 8 3/4 inches, plus docketing on verso, integral blank leaf bearing an Autograph Letter Signed from secretary John Fenwick, and address panel to Thorp & Dickson of Alnwick with stamped postmark; seal tear affecting 5 words of printed text, minor foxing, soiling to docket panel on verso. Newcastle, England, 18 August 1830
The printed minutes of a significant meeting of this local abolition group. The group lamented the lack of action on Parliament's 1823 resolution concerning "the foul Crime of holding 800,000 of our unoffending Fellow-Subjects in the fetters of one of the most degraded and detestable states of Bondage," resolved that action through Parliament rather than colonial legislatures was needed, and demanded a rule "to prevent the compulsory Separation of Families" if immediate abolition was not forthcoming. The group also here dropped the word "gradual" from their name. None found at auction or in OCLC.
