ISSUED BY AN ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION OF AMERICAN WOMEN, Held in the City of New-York, by adjournments from 9th to 12th May, 1837. NEW-YORK: PRINTED BY WILLIAM S. DORR, 123 FULTON STREET. 1837....

Beloved Brethren and Sisters — The sympathy we feel for our oppressed fellow-citizens who are enslaved in these United States, has called us together, to devise by mutual conference the best means for bringing our guilty country to a sense of her transgressions; and to implore the God of the oppressed to guide and bless our labors on behalf of our "countrymen in chains." All of us have some idea what slavery is: we have formed some faint conceptions of the horrors of a system based on irresponsi

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