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1. 7959 - Document

   Undated document signed by 85 Beverly women to the Senate and House of Representatives stating their opposition to slavery and requesting Congress to abolish the institution in the part of the country where it was legal. Edwin Stone in "History of Beverly" p 184 says the Beverly Anti-Slavery Society formed in 1834 and the Upper Beverly Anti-Slavery Society (we have their constitution) formed in 1837.

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2. 7965 - Document

   Undated Constitution of the Upper Beverly Anti-Slavery Society - Auxilury to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society - the first paragraph reads "The undersigned, believing the Most High God hath made of one blood all nations of men, to dwell on all the face of the earth that oppression of every form is wrong; that slavery especially is, in all cases and circumstances, a sin in the sight of God, and outrage on the rights of man; and that we ought ...

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