Still Image Blank leaf with inscription: "I bequeath this book to my dear son John H. Clark, Emmons Clark, New York, March 8th, 1891". View Item
Still Image Leaf [19], "Resolved. That an engrossed copy of these Resolutions, with the signature of every officer attached, be forwarded to the Colonel by the Secretary of this Board, and that printed copies of the same be made and sent to each member of the 7 Regim View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Anti-slavery resolutions] Unsigned and undated anti-slavery resolutions. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Two resolutions condemning the "system of slavery"] Two unsigned and undated resolutions on one page [from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] condemning the "system of slavery." View Item
Image Text 2 Items Resolutions of the World's Convention Printed resolution from the General Anti-Slavery Convention, held in London between June 12 and June 23 in London, by the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society [later the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society] conceming the slave trade. Signed by Society President Thomas Clarkson. View Item
Image Text 10 Items [Resolutions in arguing for the abolishment of slavery] Six pages of unsigned and undated drafts of resolutions arguing for the abolishment of slavery. View Item
Image Text 4 Items Charles Warren's communication to Public Meeting 1846 Three-page resolution submitted by Charles Warren presented to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society opposing the admission of Texas into the Union as a Slave state. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Money Pledge Resolution by the American Anti-Slavery Society stating that members for the present year [undated] pledge the minimum sum of one dollar, and that their names be published weekly in the [National] Anti-Slavery Standard. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Resolves relating to Slavery & the Slave Trade & the admission of new States into the Union. Resolution produced by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that the United States Congress must abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. Includes note that the "resolves were passed by the House in the 21st, & by the Senate of the 23 March" and that the resolutions are the same as are referred to in the letters of E. Jackson and R. C. Winthrop. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Anti-slavery resolutions] Unsigned and undated anti-slavery resolutions. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Resolutions passed by the Worcester Co. North Division A. S. Soc. List of five resolutions passed at a January 3, 1839, meeting of the Worcester Co. North Division A. S. Society in Fitchburg [Massachusetts]. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Resolutions against 1838 Gag Law Resolutions agreed upon during a January 25, 1838, Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society meeting criticizing the Congressional Gag Law and slaveholding in general. View Item
Image Text 4 Items Legislative Resolutions drawn up by E. G. Loring & passed by the Legislature with trifling amendments Undated draft of legislative resolutions by E. G. Loring in support of the abolition of slavery. View Item
Image Collection 29 Items William Oland Bourne left-handed penmanship papers, 1862-1868 (bulk 1865-1868) The William Oland Bourne collection in the New-York Historical Society's Manuscripts Department includes correspondence, papers, broadsides, and unpublished manuscripts related to his work as a social reformer, editor and author in New York City during the 1850s and 60s. Through his publication, The Soldier's Friend, he sought to aid disabled soldiers by offering prizes to those who had lost their right arms in combat during the American Civil War and had learned to write with their left hands. View Collection
Image Collection 123 Items Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society records, 1832-1870 Correspondence and papers of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, originally known as the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. View Collection