The prominent abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton (1805-1887) had been scheduled to give an anti-slavery lecture in Townsend, MA, but when he arrived the meeting house was locked, and he was turned away. This broadside is his impassioned response: "Slavery lives and riots in darkness. It howls and dies under the consuming torch of free inquiry." None others traced in OCLC or at auction.
with--4 other pieces of abolitionist ephemera: "Order of Exercises of the First Annual Meeting of the Boston Juvenile Anti-Slavery Society." Handbill, 10 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches; not in OCLC. Boston, 31 May 1837 "Anti-Slavery Tracts, No. 2: White Slavery in the United States." 8 pages, 12mo, stitched; describes the plight of mixed-race slaves. New York, undated Garrison. "Anti-Slavery Hymn." Printed poem, 7 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches, undated Printed fundraising circular to buy a complete file of The Liberator for Cornell University from the estate of the late African-American abolitionist William Cooper Nell, inscribed and signed by William Lloyd Garrison. Boston, 8 June 1874.