Home | Eastern State Penitentiary. Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - The Life and Writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Daguerreotypes - About this Collection - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910. Influence of Prominent Abolitionists - The African-American Mosaic Exhibition | Exhibitions. Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention, 1833 The abolitionist movement took shape in 1833, when William Lloyd Garrison, Arthur and Lewis Tappan, and others formed the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia.
The group issued this manifesto announcing the reasons for formation of the society and enumerating its goals. The broadside includes the names of delegates from ten states, to the Anti-Slavery Convention. “Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention Assembled in Philadelphia, December 4, 1833” R[ueben] S. Gilbert, Illustrator Philadelphia: Merrihew & Gunn, 1833 Broadside Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (47) Bookmark this item: Illustrations of the Anti-Slavery Almanac Each year the American Anti-Slavery Society distributed an almanac containing poems, drawings, essays, and other abolitionist material.
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