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The Compromise of 1850
1/29/1850
The "Gag Rule" Resolution
12/21/1837
Address of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
7/13/1836
House Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to Prohibit Congress from Abolishing Slavery
3/2/1861
Anti-Slavery Petition from the Women of Philadelphia
1844
Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Vice President John Adams transmitting a petition from the Society for the Abolition of Slavery and an address of the people called Quakers on the subject of the aboli
2/1790
Proposed Thirteenth Amendment Regarding the Abolition of Slavery
3/2/1861
Petition from Citizens of New York Asking that Slavery and the Slave-trade may be Expressly Prohibited by Act of Congress in all the Territories of the United States
3/25/1851
Petition from Pennsylvanians to Reject Slavery
1844
Answer of the Proctors for the Amistad Africans
1/7/1840
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