id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 39568 Tuckerman, Bayard William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery .txt text/plain 50721 2271 59 constitutional right of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of and scattered State Bible societies, Jay published a pamphlet in 1816 was formed in New York in 1785 with John Jay as president and Alexander ANTISLAVERY SOCIETIES.--ANTI-ABOLITION RIOTS.--JAY PUBLISHES HIS ANTISLAVERY SOCIETIES.--ANTI-ABOLITION RIOTS.--JAY PUBLISHES HIS Elizur Wright, Jr., all officers of the New York Antislavery Society. of the New York postmaster in the United States courts, but Judge Jay Utica on October 21, 1835, to form a New York State Antislavery Society. In 1836 Judge Jay resigned the presidency of the New York State AMERICAN ANTISLAVERY SOCIETY.--JUDGE JAY RESIGNS HIS MEMBERSHIP, AMERICAN ANTISLAVERY SOCIETY.--JUDGE JAY RESIGNS HIS MEMBERSHIP, JUDGE JAY CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THE ANTISLAVERY CAUSE BY HIS ADVICE JUDGE JAY CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THE ANTISLAVERY CAUSE BY HIS ADVICE elected president of New York State Antislavery Society, 77; presented by John Jay to the New York Historical Society, for ./cache/39568.txt ./txt/39568.txt