(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) CLARKSON THOMAS General Anti Slavery

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CLARKSON, THOMAS. General Anti-Slavery Convention, Called by the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society; held in London on the 12th June, 1840 and continued by Adjournment to the 23rd of the same Month. Broadside, 10x8 inches, signed in type by Clarkson; faint signs on reverse where this might have been in an album. London, 1840

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rare broadside announcement, signed in type by Thomas Clarkson, the grand old man of the movement. Lists the four "Resolutions" that were agreed to at this important anti-slavery convention. In the winter of 1839-1840, the invitations to all "friends of the slave" were sent to churches and anti-slavery societies in the United States. As a result, a half dozen or more American women, prominent in the movement booked passage to London. When they arrived however, a group of American clergymen and their British counterparts had barred them from the great Masonic Hall where the Convention was to be held. After much argument on the floor, a compromise was reached. The women could attend, but behind a curtain, with a figurative "curtain" placed on their voices as well. Lucretia Mott, Sarah Pugh, Abby Kimber, Elizabeth Neal, Mary Grew, of Philadelphia, Ann Green Phillips, Emily Winslow, and Abby Southwick, of Boston all were forced to remain silent. William Lloyd Garrison, declined to take his seat after finding the women had been so badly received.