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| | Slavery - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
 | | In Tahuantinsuyu workers outside the not-for-profit sector were subject to a mita in lieu of taxes, that they paid by working for the government. | | | Thus it seems that this is also a turning point in history, where all commodity markets can slowly lever licensing and other requirements to ensure that slavery is eliminated from production, one industry at a time, as a sectoral simultaneous policy that does not cause disadvantages for any one market player. | | | Slavery in the ancient Mediterranean cultures was a mixture of debt-slavery, slavery as a punishment for crime, and the enslavement of prisoners of war. |
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| | Constitution of the New-England Anti-Slavery Society |
| | The Following is the Constitution of the New-England Anti-Slavery Society, Founded in 1832, of Which Garrison was a Founding Member. | | | Any Anti-Slavery Society, or any association founded on kindred principles, may become auxiliary to this Society, by contributing to its funds, and may communicate with us by letter or delegation. | | | There shall be a public meeting of the Society annually, on the third Wednesday of January, at which the Board of Managers shall make a Report of their doings for the past year, and of the income, expenditures, and funds of the Society. |
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http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/english/subcultures/colors/pink/hmtatu01/tatutext3.html
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| | Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society Records |
| | As a society devoted to the immediate abolition of slavery, the antislavery movement forms the context of most of the correspondence in the collection, but the members of the society were individually and collectively involved in the education of freedmen and in other movements, including women's rights. | | | "Slavery," according to the constitution of the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, "is an evil that ought not to exist, and is a violation of the inalienable rights of man." In the summer of 1851, notices were distributed throughout Rochester, N.Y., to gather together any women interested in becoming active in the antislavery cause. | | | At the end of the war, with the formal abolition of slavery and the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau, the edge was taken off the urgency of the (now) Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery and Freedmen's Aid Society, and the Society fairly rapidly dissolved. |
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http://www.clements.umich.edu/Webguides/QR/Rochester.html
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| | Lincoln/Net: Lesson Plans: The Anti-Slavery Movement |
| | Students as a class will create and write a constitution for an anti-slavery society. | | | Now that your society has been formed, you will need to inform yourselves about the "peculiar institution" of slavery. | | | The constitution should have a one paragraph preamble stating the beliefs of the society as regards slavery and abolition. |
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| | History, Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles (1883), by Rev. Parker Pillsbury, Abolitionist Activist |
| | I had just concluded to undertake a short lecturing and financial agency for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, and was invited to a meeting of its executive committee, to mature my arrangements. | | | Through some changes occurring in 1840, The Emancipator passed out of the society's hands, but was immediately succeeded by the National Anti-Slavery Standard, which continued with unswerving integrity till slavery was abolished in the country by presidential proclamation, and the male slave at least was made secure in his right of suffrage and citizenship. | | | The present generation knows little of the terrible mysteries and meanings of slavery or anti-slavery; the outrages and horrors of the former, or the desperate and deadly encounters with the monster by the latter, long before the cannonade of Fort Sumpter, or the dreadful war chorus of the subsequent rebellion. |
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http://medicolegal.tripod.com/pillsburypacts.htm
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| | Anti-Slavery Society |
| | Great controversy was created when three women, Lydia Maria Child, Lucretia Mott and Maria Weston Chapman were elected to the executive committee of the Anti-Slavery Society. | | | The Anti-Slavery Society was dissolved after the passing of the 14th Amendment and the Reconstruction Acts in 1867. | | | Some members of the Anti-Slavery Society considered the organization to be too radical. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAantislavery.htm
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| | Platform of the American Anti-Slavery Society and its auxiliaries. : a machine-readable transcription. |
| | I.—The Society shall be known as the New-York Anti-Slavery Society, and shall be auxiliary to the American Anti-Slavery Society. | | | VIII.—The Annual Meeting of the Society shall be held each year at such time and place as the Executive Committee may direct, when the accounts of the Treasurer shall be presented, the annual report read, appropriate addresses delivered, the officers chosen, and such other business transacted as shall be deemed expedient. | | | X.—This Constitution may be amended, at any annual meeting of the Society, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present, provided the amendments proposed have been previously submitted, in writing, to the Executive Committee. |
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/rbc/rbaapc/01100/01100.sgm
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| | -----======<< ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY: FIGHTING SLAVERY TODAY >>======----- |
| | (US abolitionist and founder of the original American Anti-Slavery Society) in 1805 | | | Abolition of slavery in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1780 | | | Declaration of Rights added to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1780, which was subsequently held to have abolished slavery in the Commonwealth |
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| | Introduction - The Anti-Slavery Movement in Canada - Library and Archives Canada |
| | The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada was the last of several short-lived anti-slavery societies in Canada. | | | When the Anti-Slavery Society was founded in 1851, slavery was still being practised in the southern United States. | | | The focus of the Society's attention was the United States since in Canada slavery had been in decline from 1793 and was formally abolished in 1834. |
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http://www.archives.ca/05/0531/053101_e.html
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| | The Anti-Slavery Society |
| | But it will never change until governments and legislatures around the world, responding to world public opinion outraged by the worst abuses of child labor, shoulder their responsibilities for these children by taking action to suppress slavery in all its insidious forms. | | | As long as we do not care whether or not the products which we purchase are made by child labor, these governments will continue to close their ears to the screams of these children. | | | As long as the West is silent, the governments of these countries will continue to avert their eyes from the plight of these children. |
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| | JMISC #60: Founding the New England Anti-Slavery Society |
| | JMISC #60: Founding the New England Anti-Slavery Society | | | Both of these excellent men, who were members of the Society of Friends, took part in the formation of the American Anti-Slavery Society (Lib. | | | Sewall acted as the Society's counsel; and the antikidnapping committee, of which he was a member, was doubtless formed on his motion.)) |
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| | Anti-Slavery Movement: Women in the Movement |
| | In 1840, Abby Kelly’s election to the all-male committee split the Anti-Slavery Society. | | | Among these great reformers were: Lucy Stone, who taught fugitive slaves how to read and write; the Grimké sisters, who spoke against slavery even though their father was a slave-holder; Abby Kelly, who joined Frederick Douglas on his first speaking tours; and Susan B. Anthony, who was a general agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. | | | The American Anti-Slavery Society was founded in 1833. |
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http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/slavery/anti-slavery_movement/women.htm
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| | American Anti-Slavery Society -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | "American Anti-Slavery Society." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. | | | He helped found the Anti-Slavery Society and was its president for 23 years. | | | Includes details on anti-slavery society, groups, and a list of American campaigners against slavery. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9006091?tocId=9006091
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| | "I will be heard!" Abolitionism in America |
| | Members crafted and sold abolitionist paraphernalia, household items, and publications to raise money for abolitionist activities, especially the American Anti-Slavery Society’s newspaper, the National Anti-Slavery Standard. | | | The National Anti-Slavery Bazaar was a large fundraising fair run by the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. |
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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/strategies/Bazaar.htm
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| | Anti-Slavery Society |
| | Great controversy was created when three women, Lydia Maria Child, Lucretia Mott and Maria Weston Chapman were elected to the executive committee of the Anti-Slavery Society. | | | The Anti-Slavery Society was dissolved after the passing of the 14th Amendment and the Reconstruction Acts in 1867. | | | Lewis Tappan argued that: "To put a woman on the committee with men is contrary to the usages of civilized society." |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAantislavery.htm
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| | THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY |
| | Southern anxiety increased in 1833 with the founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia. | | | The sentiments adopted at the founding meeting established the basic argument of the Society for the next three decades, namely, that slavery was illegal, if not under the Constitution (which Garrison had damned as "a covenant with hell"), then certainly under natural law. | | | Led by the fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, the Society pledged to end slavery in the United States. |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/18.htm
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| | slavery |
| | Indiana, a redemption from slavery American commonwealths | | | Slavery and four years of war; a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part: 1861-1865, by Joseph Warren Keifer. | | | Collamer, of Vermont, on slavery in the territories. |
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| | Abolition: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition) |
| | In this circular, the women of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society advertise a fundraising event to support an agent. | | | 3 New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836 Rare Book and Special Collections Division (37) | | | On January 1, 1794, delegates from the abolition societies of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland met in Philadelphia, a stronghold of the anti-slavery Quaker religion. |
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http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html
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| | Slavery and Anti-Slavery (1852), by Rev. William Goodell (Constitutional Law and History) |
| | The writings of Las Casas abound in denunciations against slavery; and from the language of Herrera himself, it would not conclusively appear that Las Casas designed, to have the Africans imported by compulsion, or held as slaves.Vide the Abbé Grégoire's Defence of Las Casas | | | Whether this act prohibited, or whether it authorized such slavery as afterwards actually existed in the colony of Massachusetts, might not be very difficult to determine. | | | The early laws did not authorize, but prohibited such slavery as was actually introduced! |
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http://medicolegal.tripod.com/goodellsaas.htm
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| | iAbolish -- Web Portal of the American Anti-Slavery Group |
| | Don't miss our interactive presentation on modern-day slavery and anti-slavery videos. | | | Massachusetts has over a billion dollars invested in companies that do business in Sudan and thus indirectly supporting genocide and slavery. | | | Learn more about 21st-century slavery: by country, slave narratives, and a look at the products of slavery. |
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http://www.anti-slavery.org
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| | Douglas: Anti-Slavery Movement |
| | The Annual Report of this Society affords the amplest and truest account of the anti-slavery movement, from year to year. | | | This Society is the oldest of modern Anti-Slavery Societies. | | | The next recognized anti-slavery body is the Free Soil party, alias the Free Democratic party, alias-the Republican party. |
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http://www.thenagain.info/Classes/Sources/Douglass.html
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| | Baltimore Anti-Slavery Society |
| | Find out how to support the Baltimore Anti-Slavery Society by adding the Medallion to your web page. | | | Child Labor in Pakistan - The Atlantic Monthly, February, 1996. | | | "Sudan: Where Children Live in Bondage." Sun reporters Gregory Kane and Gilbert Lewthwaite traveled to the Sudan to report this horrifying account of men, women, and especially children who are sold in to slavery every day. |
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| | American Anti-Slavery Society -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | The antislavery issue entered the mainstream of American politics through the Free-Soil Party (1848–54) and subsequently the Republican Party (founded in 1854). | | | The societies sponsored meetings, adopted resolutions, signed antislavery petitions to be sent to Congress, published journals and enlisted subscriptions, printed and distributed propaganda in vast quantities, and sent out agents and lecturers (70 in 1836 alone) to carry the antislavery message to Northern audiences. | | | The society's public meetings were most effective when featuring the eloquent testimony of former slaves like Frederick Douglass or William Wells Brown. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9006091
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| | Anti-Slavery Movement: Women in the Movement |
| | In 1840, Abby Kelly’s election to the all-male committee split the Anti-Slavery Society. | | | Among these great reformers were: Lucy Stone, who taught fugitive slaves how to read and write; the Grimké sisters, who spoke against slavery even though their father was a slave-holder; Abby Kelly, who joined Frederick Douglas on his first speaking tours; and Susan B. Anthony, who was a general agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. | | | “To put a woman on the committee with men is contrary to the usages of civilized society,” said member Lewis Tappan (Hughes 102). |
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| | The African American : A Journey from Slavery to Freedom |
| | The abolitionists were looking for evidence of cruelty and the evil profiteering involved in slavery. | | | Slavery as an issue in America was in constant conflict with the founding Democratic principles of this nation. | | | Slavery therefore became the ultimate test of disunity within the union of states which were already at odds in a democracy espousing freedom for its people. |
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| | Abolition: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition) |
| | On January 1, 1794, delegates from the abolition societies of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland met in Philadelphia, a stronghold of the anti-slavery Quaker religion. | | | The group voted to petition Congress to prohibit the slave trade and also to appeal to the legislatures of the various states to abolish slavery. | | | The work was issued during the 1835-1836 campaign to have Congress abolish slavery in the Capital. |
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| | Timeline: The United States |
| | Frederick Douglass is hired by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society as a full-time lecturer. | | | Slavery entirely prohibited in Connecticut by state law. | | | Slavery abolished in the U.S. by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. |
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| | American Anti-Slavery Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | One party that formed from the disagreements concerning Garrison's leadership was the United States Liberty Party, an separate anti-slavery society that broke away from the American Anti-slavery Society. | | | The American Anti-Slavery Society should not be confused with the American Anti-Slavery Group--a modern-day group. | | | Works by the American Anti-Slavery Society at Project Gutenberg |
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| | Underground Railroad: Anti-Slavery |
| | The Chairman of the Executive Committee for the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society was Rowland Robinson. | | | The Vermont Anti-Slavery Society was formed in 1834 just one year after the formation of the American Anti-Slavery Society. | | | While the Vermont Legislature routinely passed resolutions against slavery and while there were many local anti-slavery societies, that did not mean that Vermont was free from prejudice against blacks. |
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http://www.vermonthistory.org/educate/antisl.htm
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| | American Anti-Slavery Society |
| | It was crippled in 1840 when the faction from New York City led by the Tappans withdrew and formed the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. | | | The society disbanded in 1870 after Congress ratified the Fifteenth Amendment. | | | Tappan served on the executive committee with such prominent merchants and reformers as John Rankin and William Green, and his brother Arthur Tappan was president of the society. |
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