id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 35693 De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) History of American Abolitionism Its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the Southern Confederacy. .txt text/plain 36801 1591 61 abolition of slavery, the prohibition of the removal of slaves from State reports stated that the general government had no power to abolish slavery said State after the admission thereof into the Union, shall be free at principles and designs of the people of the United States in regard to new slavery, but prohibiting it throughout the United States north of latitude the United States for a similar purpose also held a meeting this year, and Here the New York City Anti-Slavery Society was duly organized, having for South; State, county and local anti-slavery societies were organized United States no hereditary slavery; but on and after that day, every nor slave trade at the seat of government of the United States." In January, 1840, a New York State Anti-Slavery Convention was held in countries ceded by Mexico to the United States excluded slavery. fire about the slave States, in which slavery must die." ./cache/35693.txt ./txt/35693.txt