(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) CHAPMAN MARIA WESTON Editor Right an

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CHAPMAN, MARIA WESTON, Editor. Right and Wrong in Boston in 1836 (cover title) Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society; Being a Concise History of the Cases of the Slave Child, Med, and of the Women Demanded as Slaves of the Supreme Court of Mass. . . 90 pages. 12mo, original printed wrappers with some discoloration and a few small chips to the corners and spine extremities "To the Editor of the Protestant Vindicator" at the top of the front cover, presumably in the hand of Chapman or one of the other members. Boston, 1836

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first edition and the first of the three pamphlets issued by Chapman and the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society over a period of several years. In 1836, the Society joined with other groups in suing for habeas corpus in the "freedom suit" known as Commonwealth v. Aves. They sought freedom for the young slave girl Med whose mistress had brought her to Boston from New Orleans on a trip. The court decided in favor of the slave's freedom and made Med a ward of the court. The decision caused an uproar in the South and added to tensions over slaveholders' travel to free states, as well as the hardening of positions in the years leading up to the Civil War. It was the first case in which a slave was determined to be free soon after being brought voluntarily to a free state. See Finkelman, Slavery in the Courtroom, pages 25-29. Afro-Americana, 1373.