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Collection Reference Number GLC00267.051
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1837 
Title Fifth annual report of the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, with some account of the annual meeting
Date 25 January 1837
Author Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society  
Document Type Pamphlet; Non-governmental organization document
Content Description List of lifetime members of the Society on the back cover. Contains a report and proceedings of the annual meeting, which began on 25 January. One section of the report states: "Abolitionists may not, therefore, slumber at their post, or relax a single effort. It is true, a mighty change has been wrought in individual sentiment within the last five years, favorable to the right of our colored countrymen; but public sentiment is still powerfully enlisted on the side of slavery."
Subjects Slavery  African American History  Abolition  Reform Movement  
Place written Boston, Massachusetts
Theme Slavery & Abolition; African Americans
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859