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Excerpt from Report of a Delegate to the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women: Held in Philadelphia, May, 1838; Including an Account of Other Meetings Held in Pennsylvania Hall, and of the Riot; Addressed to the Fall River Female Anti-Slavery Society, and Published by Its Request
Having endeavored to represent your body in the anti-slavery Convention of American Women, held in Philadelphia, l will now at tempt to represent that Convention to you; or, rather, I would so vividly and faithfully describe its proceedings, and the various interesting events with which it' was connected, as to take you individually to the scene; and bring you to feel and act in full sympathy with those who were present. This, it appears to me, will ad vance the cause of abolition, by enabling us to realize how necessary it is that we should be uniformly active in the cause; and by showing us how, and when, the lever which we hold may besuccessfully plied in rearing the mighty fabric of freedom which, in spite of sneering, re buke, or violence, is daily going up in our coun try. In order to present the anti-s meet ings more familiarly to your view, submit to you a kind oi mask, eemmemmxgwith the day previous to the organization of the Convention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
