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FROM A JUVENILE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY'S LIBRARY (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) WELD, THEODORE. American Slavery As It Is. Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. 224 pages; small, tall folio, original cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards; extremities rubbed, front free end-paper loose. otherwise a tight copy with the contents lightly and occasionally foxed; ex-library with 'Juvenile Wesleyan Anti-Slavery Society No 2' boldly written in blue ink on the front paste-down, and a small '2' at the top of the front cover. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839
an extremely rare example of an anti-slavery book from the lending library of an anti-slavery society, and a juvenile one at that. The Wesleyan Anti-Slavery Society grew out of the movement to reform the Methodist Church. In November of 1842, several Wesleyan Methodist ministers decided to drop out of the main body of the church, finding the church's tacit acceptance of slavery among its brethren unacceptable and antithetical to Christ's teachings. In May 1843, a convention of ministers from nearly a dozen affiliations gathered in Utica, NY to found a new church, dedicated to the eradication of slavery.
