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African Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts

African Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts Photograph
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Photograph, circa 1892

18 cm x 12.8 cm

From William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879: The Story of His Life, Volume I, Part II, by Wendell Phillips Garrison, (NY, 1885), extra illustrated edition, image opposite page 280.
Handwritten caption below image: "The African Baptist Church in Smith Court, Belknap Street. Birthplace of the New England Anti Slavery Society."


The African Meeting House, the site of many early antislavery meetings in Boston, where William Lloyd Garrison and eleven other white antislavery activists founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1832. The New England Society merged with the General Colored Association, an older African American antislavery organization in 1833.

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