Title: E. A. Phelps British Anti-Slavery Society Papers, 1845
Arrangement
The collection is arranged alphabetically.
Abstract
Written by the committees of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society in 1845, these resolutions protested the imprisonment of anyone who assisted a runaway slave in the southern United States.
Administrative/Biographical History
Chronology:
1796 - Francis Wayland is born in New York City.
1805 - Amos Augustus Phelps is born in Farmington, Connecticut.
1807 - Britain bans importation of African slaves.
1808 - United States bans importation of African slaves.
1817-1821 - Francis Wayland tutors at Union College.
1821-1826 - Wayland is pastor of the First Baptist Church of Boston.
1823 - British Antislavery Society is established.
1826 - Amos Phelps graduates from Yale.
1827 - Francis Wayland is named President of Brown University.
1830 - Phelps graduates from Yale Divinity School.
1831-1834 - Phelps is pastor of Congregational churches in Boston area and editor of the “Emancipation.”
1833 - Parliament abolishes slavery with the Slavery Abolition Act.
1834 - Anti-slavery societies begin to mail petitions Congress.
1836 - U.S. Congress passes resolution postponing action on all petitions relating to slavery.
1844 - U.S. Congress rescinds the gag rule on antislavery petitions.
1845 - British Antislavery Societies sign and send petitions in support of abolitionists in the United States.
1850 - Fugitive Slave Act passed.
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