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  • Subject is exactly "Antislavery movements--Vermont"

The strange career of Benjamin Franklin Prentiss, antislavery lawyer

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A nineteenth-century genealogist alleged that Prentiss, the young St. Albans amanuensis of Jeffrey Brace's 1810 memoir, The Blind African Slave, practiced law in Richmond, Virginia, and ran a plantation in Wheeling, West Virginia. Although this…

Andrew Harris, Vermont's forgotten abolitionist

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Andrew Harris was a man of constant activity and tremendous energies, all of which were devoted to what at the time was the truly radical cause of racial equality in America. His untimely death of fever in December 1841 at the age of 27 is the only…

[Circular] 1820 October 20, Montpelier [to] Dear sir, The managers of the Vermont Colonization Society ... proposed to ... inhabitants of ... State, a general contribution in aid ... of this benevolent institution

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Society officers listed.

The forty-eighth annual meeting of the Vermont Colonization Society will be holden ... Hall of House of Representatives ... General J.W. Phelps ... will address the meeting. Rev. Dr. Tracy of Boston ... to speak ...

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