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From: Thomas Hamm <>
Subject: Re: Sunbury Records
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 07:08:01 -0700


>Hello, Carl!
>
>The records I am using cover all of the meetings in Stillwater Monthly Meeting
>(Hicksite). Meetings in this Monthly Meeting included Stillwater, Somerset,
>Richland, Sunbury, Duck Creek and Center. The people mentioned in my
>posts were attenders of one of those meetings. In several cases, the records
>mention where the individual lived.
>
>There is very little mention of any anti-slavery activity in the record book.
>
>Perhaps the best source for anti-slavery activity in eastern Ohio during the
>1800s is a newspaper printed in Salem, Ohio, called the Anti-Slavery Bugle.
>I understand that this newspaper is on microfilm at the Ohio Historical
>Society.
>If this is true, it can be borrowed on interlibrary loan.
>
>This is all that I have right now.
>

The ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE began publishing in 1845. For years before 1845,
the major antislavery journal in Ohio was the Cincinnati PHILANTHROPIST,
which began about 1835, I think.

It's important to keep in mind that after 1840, the organized antislavery
movement in the US split into two factions. More radical abolitionists,
led by William Lloyd Garrison, wanted to link abolition to other reforms,
like women's rights, and opposed the formation of an abolitionist political
party. This type of abolition tended to appeal more to Hicksite Friends.
More conservative abolitionists wanted to focus just on antislavery and
liked the idea of political action. They appealed more to Orthodox
Friends. The PHILANTHROPIST after 1840 was anti-Garrisonian. The BUGLE
was a pro-Garrison journal.

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