1840 WORLD ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION. Minutes of the First World-Anti-Slavery Convention. Excellent. Jonathan Edwards Foot of Market Street -

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1840 WORLD ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION. Minutes of the First World-Anti-Slavery Convention. Excellent. Jonathan Edwards Foot of Market Street -This is among the most historically significant documents in the entire canon of anti slavery and human rights history. The Minutes of the Proceedings is the official contemporaneous record of resolutions, votes, and formal actions taken by the Convention and was the authoritative record the institution's own ledger of what was decided and by whom. The calling of a "General Anti Slavery Convention" to meet in London in June 1840 represented an attempt