Lot 798
"ANTI-SLAVERY MEETINGS", Printed by the Western Anti-Slavery Society of Salem, Ohio [1850]. Rare broadside, 16 x 10½", Homestead Print, Salem, Ohio, [1850], intended to be filled out for a specific event. It reads: "Union with Freemen--No Union with Slaveholders. ANTI-SLAVERY MEETINGS! Anti-Slavery Meetings will be held in this place, to commence on… at… in the…. To be Addressed by Agents of the Western ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. Three millions of your fellow beings are in chains -- the Church and Government sustains the horrible system of oppression. Turn Out! AND LEARN YOUR DUTY TO YOURSELVES, THE SLAVE AND GOD. EMANCIPATION or DISSOLUTION, and a FREE-NORTHERN REPUBLIC!"
The Western Anti-Slavery Society was headquartered in Salem, Ohio and was one of the more radical abolitionist groups, active on the Underground Railroad and the publisher of the Anti-Slavery Bugle. The group's meetings featuring speakers such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass. Copies of this broadside are rare. One copy resides in the collections of the Library of Congress (Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 137, Folder 4), and another is at Yale University. OCLC# 59557224. Slight fading; minor toning and soiling. Matted and framed to an overall size of 18¾ x 13¾".
Estimated Value $2,000 - 3,000.
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