Scrapbook, 1837-1849.

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Scrapbook, 1837-1849.

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Newspaper clippings, dated between 1837 and 1849, about slavery and a riot at the site of an antislavery lecture by C.C. Burleigh in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; at the end of the volume are pages listing books let from a circulating library between 1822 and 1834 in the Woodbury, Conn., area.

1 v. ; 25 cm.

Connecticut Historical Society

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Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810-1878

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American abolitionist and lecturer. From the description of Autograph entry signed : Salem, Ohio, 1868 Dec. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 639942115 Burleigh was an abolitionist and reformer, associated with the Garrisonian wing of the anti-slavery movement. He was editor of the Unionists, 1835-37, wrote for the Liberator, edited the Pennsylvania Freeman after 1844, and served as the secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society and editor of its annual reports. ...