| Author | Western Anti-slavery Society.
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| Title | Western Anti-slavery Society records, 1848-1858 [microform].
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| Description | 1 reel of microfilm.
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| Summary Note | Summary: Consists of Western Anti-slavery Society records from the collection of the Salem Historical Society of Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio. The records consist of two bound volumes. The first, number 6 in the Salem Historical Society's collection of bound volumes, includes the Western Anti-slavery Society's Executive Committee meeting minutes and the Society's Annual Reports, taken from its organ, The Anti-slavery Bugle, for the years 1848-1856. The second volume, number 7 in the Salem collection, includes financial accounts of the Anti-slavery Bugle, and subscriptions received, 1851-1858.
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| Reproduct. Note | Microfilm. Cleveland, Ohio : Western Reserve Historical Society, 1986. 1 microfilm reel : positive and negative ; 35 mm.
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| Loc. Orig/Dup. | Holds originals: Salem Historical Society Salem, Ohio.
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| Historical Note | The Western Anti-slavery Society based its operation in the Ohio Western Reserve, but was active throughout the Old Northwest and frontier states. Organized in 1842 as the Ohio American Anti-Slavery Society, it affiliated with the national American Anti-Slavery Society. It published the Anti-slavery Bugle from 1845-1861 in New Lisbon, and later, Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio.
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| Cum. Index Note | Finding aids: Register available in the library.
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| Subjects | Abolitionists -- Ohio -- Societies, etc.
Antislavery movements -- Ohio.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Western Anti-slavery Society.
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| Related Titles | Anti-slavery bugle.
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| | WRHS Research Library: Microfilm (Cab. 56:3)
mq85355: Positive microfilm, microform room [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 48966] |
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