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10/30/1840 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson describes the various social movements sweeping Boston. |
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11/30/1840 |
Chardon Street Conventions are held. |
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1840 |
Charles Lenox Remond attends the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. |
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1840 |
Liberty Party is formed. |
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1840 |
Social reform movements in Boston at this time are described by Thomas O’Connor. |
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03/09/1841 |
United States v. The Amistad ruling frees enslaved people from Africa. |
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04/30/1841 |
Brook Farm is established. |
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05/14/1841 |
Rev. John Codman delivers a sermon denouncing slavery. |
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08/11/1841 |
Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison meet on Nantucket. |
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10/31/1841 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne leaves Brook Farm. |
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