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The Boston and Philadelphia fairs were sponsors for the first anti-slavery sales in 1834 and 1836. 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.
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.
The primary PFASS fundraiser was an annual fair in which handcrafted items such as needlework with abolitionist inscriptions and antislavery publications were sold. For example, the well-known piece of abolitionist literature, The Anti-Slavery Alphabet was printed and sold at the 1846 Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Fair. PFASS meetings consisted of ...
On January 1, 1840, Piper organized one of the first anti-slavery fairs in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The money was used for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society; to fund abolitionist's speaking tours; and to help support The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper. Sometimes funds were used to ensure that fugitive slaves were not returned to ...
Thankful and her family were first introduced to the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society in the winter of 1834 while still living in Peabody. Sarah and Joseph attended the First Anti-slavery Fair held by the Society. [5] Thankfully prompted her daughters to write articles for the fair in addition to attending it.
The society held a number of anti-slavery fairs in which women could embroider or sew articles with anti-slavery mottoes on them, and then sell them to attendees to fund raise for their group. The Boston Fair was the largest one, but it inspired smaller fairs for the other female antislavery groups as well.
With the rise of the anti-slavery movement, Kentucky lawmakers revised the criminal code in 1830 to provide for a sentence of from two to 20 years confinement for those convicted of “Seducing or ...
[6]: 96 Harriet co-chaired Philadelphia Women's Anti-Slavery Society fairs, [3] which between 1840 and 1861 raised $32,000 (equivalent to $1,171,968 in 2023). [4]: 172 [6]: 41 In 1841, the group rallied against the exclusion of black Sunday schools at the annual Sunday School exhibition in Independence Square. The following year, it was a ...