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Methodist Anti Slavery Convention at Utica 1838 Details
The Utica convention unfolds with ministers and laity debating immediate emancipation, condemning slavery as a sin and urging Methodist action. Calls arise for delegates to Wesleyan and Canada Conferences, formation of anti slavery societies, and a push for unrestricted prayer, literature, and political petitions to end slavery nationwide.
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Utica
Zion
Methodist Episcopal Church
N.Y
Methodist E
N. Y
Timothy
Psx
Portsmouth
N. SH
Pil Hoag
Rochester
Secysher
Worcester
The
Conén
Timothy Merritt
Methodist
E. Church
Methodist E. Church
M. E. Church
England
Wesleyan Conference
Canada
Luther Lee
District of Columbia
Free States
Christ
North
South
Watson
Africa
Wesley
Fisk
Mr. Bunting
Adam Clark
Ures
Living Voice
Congress
General Conference
America
Gerrit Smith
Henry Grew
Philadelphia
Mr. May
American U. S. Society
A. F. Williams
Farmington, Conn
Edmund Quincy
Boston
Mass
J. G. Whittier
Penn
Wm. Buffum
Smithfield
R. I
Wm. Jay
Bedford
John E. Fuller
Wendell Phillips
W. L. Chaplin
Joel Hawes
Hartford
Conn
H.T. Cheever
Maine
Amossworth
Samuel Lee
N. H
Orson
Murray
Vermont
Wm. Adams
R. J
E. D. Hudson
I. N. Dougherty
N. J
Robert Purvis
Charles W. Denison
Delaware
American Anti-Slavery Society
Broadway Tabernacle
New York
Lewis Tappan
Gerrit Smith, Esq
David Thurston
Joshua Leavitt
Wm. M. Chace
Oliver Johnson
Charles L. Remond
David Root
Messrs
Alanson St. Clair
H.C. Wright
Lewis ‘Tappan
Arthur Tappan
May
J C. Beaman
Middletown
Hawes
Monroe
E. G. Loring
A. A. Phelps
D. L. Child
J. T. Norton
Mr. Robinson
United States
Stewart
Yeas
Alvan Stewart
Theodore S. Wright
New York City
Council Inn
Tay L. Tappan
D Dern W. L. Hang
S. Crothers
C. W. Denison