American Anti-Slavery Society. Executive Committee, recipient
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Holograph, signedTitle devised by catalogerJohn Jay writes to the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society with his regrets that he will be unable to attend the 30th anniversary celebration in Philadelphia. Jay offers a lengthy analysis of the history and present state of popular perception of the American abolitionist movement, and of the use of African-American soldiers in the Union Army. Jay notes that his views depart from the typical popular interpretation of American abolitionists as "disunionish"
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Internet ArchiveKeywords
- Abolitionists
- African American Soldiers
- African Americans
- American Anti Slavery Society
- Antislavery Movements
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808 1889
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879
- Jay, John, 1817 1894
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809 1865
- Massachusetts Anti Slavery Society
- Slaver
- United States
- United States. Army