Description
This issue on the topic of slavery includes: a letter to the Branches of the Manumission Society of Tennessee, an Address delivered at a meeting of the Knoxville Branch of the aforementioned; Article 3. Sec. 26 from the Constitution of Missouri (extract taken from St. Louis Enquirer); extract from a letter to the Editor from a correspondent in Norfolk, Va. and other letters; on Emancipation-- opinion of two Knoxville Tenn. citizens, both professors of Religion ; a letter "To the Abolition and Manumission Society of the United States", signed by Richard Peters and Walter Sawyer on behalf and by order of the American Convention for promoting the abolition (Philadelphia, Aug. 8, 1817).
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Manumission Society of Tennessee
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University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of TennesseeKeywords
- African Americans
- Antislavery Movements
- Civil Rights
- Education
- Embree, Elihu, 1782 1820
- Free Blacks
- Government
- History
- Human Rights
- Jonesborough
- Manumission Society Of Tennessee
- Missouri
- Missouri Compromise
- Moral And Ethical Aspects
- Periodicals
- Political And Social Views
- Politics And Government
- Slave Trade
- Slaver
- Slavery
- Societies, Etc
- Sources
- Tennessee
- Tennessee, East
- United States