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Charles Sumner's The anti-slavery enterprise, 1855

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Title	Charles Sumner's The anti-slavery enterprise, 1855
Collection title	Charles Sumner's The anti-slavery enterprise, 1855
Item ID	nyhs_cs_v-01_p-001-001.jpg
Date of original	1855
Creator	Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Institution	New-York Historical Society
Description	Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The anti-slavery enterprise." Internal evidence indicates that it was to be delivered to a Boston audience, probably on May 15, 1855.
Subject	Antislavery movements--United States
Material type of original	Speeches Drafts (documents)
Publisher of digital	New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West New York, NY 10024 212-873-3400
Rights management	This digital image may be used for educational or scholarly purposes without restriction. Commercial and other uses of the item are prohibited without prior written permission from the New-York Historical Society. Please visit the New-York Historical Society's Rights and Reproductions Department web page at http://www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions for more information.

Title	First draft, leaf 1
Collection title	Charles Sumner's The anti-slavery enterprise, 1855
Item ID	nyhs_cs_v-01_p-001-001.jpg
Date of original	1855
Institution	New-York Historical Society
Description	Complete first draft of speech.
Publisher of digital	New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West New York, NY 10024 212-873-3400
Rights management	This digital image may be used for educational or scholarly purposes without restriction. Commercial and other uses of the item are prohibited without prior written permission from the New-York Historical Society. Please visit the New-York Historical Society's Rights and Reproductions Department web page at http://www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions for more information.
Full text	Original MS of an address on The Anti Slavery Enterprise by Charles Sumner In the autumn of 1835, on the 21st Oct an association of ladies, known as the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, was summoned to meet in an upper story of No. 44 Washington St. -- in this good city of Boston & it was announced that several addresses were to be delivered on the occasion. The room was small & the company expected was not large. Sometime before the appointed hour, the door was surrounded by a loud & tumultuous crowd, who saluted the members, as they came, with all manner of vileness, & afterwards, during the prayers with which the proceedings commenced, actually hurled missiles at the lady presiding, &, finally by force & clamor, which were unchecked by the Mayor, dispersed the assembly. Intruders insolently seized the papers of the Society, & hurled them out of the windows into the street where they were madly destroyed. The

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