[Minutes of meetings of the Worcester County Anti-Slavery Societies, North and South Divisions]
Series: Samuel May Correspondence
Published: 1841
Place of publication: Worcester, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Worcester South Division Anti-Slavery Society; History; Worcester County North Anti-slavery Society; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Description: On February 10, 1841, a joint meeting of the Executive Committees of the North and South Divisions voted to appoint a committee, Charles White of Holden and William J. Wilder of FItchburg, to investigate an alleged resistance to Massachusetts law by a person bringing a slave into the state, and, if resistance was proved, to lay a case before the Grand Jury. It was also voted to ask May to arrange for town lectures by Reverend Adin Ballou and others. Another meeting was held on the morning of March 16 by members of the North Division adjourned in the afternoon, cut short due to a meeting of the South Division which intervened.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

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