The Anti-Slavery Convention
Declaration of the
Anti-Slavery Convention
Philadelphia: December 4, 1833
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In 1833, sixty abolitionist leaders from ten states met in Philadelphia
to create a national organization to bring about immediate emancipation
of all slaves. The American Anti-slavery Society elected officers
and adopted a constitution and declaration. Drafted by William Lloyd
Garrison, the declaration pledged its members to work for emancipation
through non-violent actions of "moral suasion," or "the overthrow
of prejudice by the power of love." The society encouraged public
lectures, publications, civil disobedience, and the boycott of cotton
and other slave-manufactured products.
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