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Description: File name: 12_05_000036 Local call number: RARE BKS H.710.A10C 1849 W2 xxb Title: Eight hundred thousand slaves set free Other title information: The anniversary of emancipation in the British West Indies, will be celebrated in the city of Worcester, on Friday, August 3d [1849], by a general mass meeting of the Friends of Freedom ... Among the speakers, who have engaged to be present, are Wendell Phillips, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Parker, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adin Ballou, Charles C. Burliegh, and Robert Morris. Genre: Broadsides Created/Published: [Worcester, Mass. : s.n.] Date issued: 1849 (inferred) Physical description: 1 broadside ; 62 x 47 cm. General notes: Title from item. Date notes: Date supplied by cataloger. Subjects: Antislavery movements--Massachusetts; Slaves--Emancipation--West Indies, British--Anniversaries, etc; Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884; Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; Ballou, Adin, 1803-1890; Friends of Freedom (Boston, Mass.) Collection: Anti-Slavery Collection Location: Boston Public Library, Rare Books Department Rights: No known copyright restrictions.
Title: Eight hundred thousand slaves set free (14174338820)
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