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The New England Anti-Slavery Society(January 6, 1832) organized on Boston’s Beacon Hill. By using the African Baptist Church as a starting point, it was a good place to stake their claim.

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In 1832 he founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society, the first immediatist society in the country, and in 1833 he helped organize the American Anti-Slavery Society, writing its Declaration of Sentiments and serving as its first corresponding secretary. It was primarily as an editorialist, however, excoriating slave owners and their…

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1853 – Solomon Northup

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1853 Solomon Northup, author of the memoir “Twelve Years a Slave, is freed after 7 illegal years in slavery with aid of Washington Hunt, Governor of New York

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1903 – President Theodore Roosevelt closes a post office in Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to extend the term of Black postmistress. Minnie Cox

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FDR closed the Post Office until her term expired

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1936 – In Berlin, Nazi officials claim that their treatment of Jews is not the business of the League of Nations.

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1776 – Congress publishes the Tory Act

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The Continental Congress publishes the “Tory Act” resolution on January 2, 1776, which describes how colonies should handle those Americans who remain loyal to the British and King George.

The act called on colonial committees to indoctrinate those “honest and well-meaning, but uninformed people” by enlightening them as to the “origin, nature and extent of the present controversy.” The Congress remained “fully persuaded that the more our right to the enjoyment of our ancient liberties and privileges is examined, the more just and necessary our present opposition to ministerial tyranny will appear.”

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