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Smaller fairs were able to donate and sell items at the larger fairs like Boston and Philadelphia which provided advertisement for the message of anti-slavery as well as helped smaller fairs rise among the Northeast. By 1848 Boston, Philadelphia, and several smaller fairs received material and moral support from anti-slavery advocates in ...
The Anti-Slavery Fair, first held in Boston in 1834, was a way to raise money for the society's work. Maria and her sister Anne were chief organizers of the fairs, which were popular Boston social events.
Additionally, Earle coordinated Worcester anti-slavery fairs from 1848 and organized fundraising for the American Anti-Slavery Society, eventually sending donations to Maria Weston Chapman. [3] She founded and was president of the Worcester City Anti-Slavery Society, in addition to organizing lectures for the organization. [ 4 ]
The American Negro Exposition, also known as the Black World's Fair and the Diamond Jubilee Exposition, was a world's fair held in Chicago from July until September in 1940, to celebrate the 75th anniversary (also known as a diamond jubilee) of the end of slavery in the United States at the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865.
1801 – Paris, France – Second Exposition (1801). After the success of the exposition of 1798 a series of expositions for French manufacturing followed (1801, 1802, 1806, 1819, 1823, 1827, 1834, 1844 and 1849) until the first properly international (or universal) exposition in France in 1855.
Their forgotten ordeal reflects the heart and soul of the anti-slavery struggle. James M. Prichard received a B. A. and an M.A. in History from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He ...
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These publications, most of which were short-lived and had limited circulation, existed to share information that promoted the decline and fall of American slavery. This list is focused on newspapers whose predominant interest was the abolition of slavery, rather than any American newspaper that held a generally anti-slavery editorial position.