This section of our digital exhibition features a book, a certificate, a speech, and letters, which were all created across the early-to-mid-19th century. These items pertain to anti-slavery organizing, advocacy, and abolitionist thought. By analyzing an edition of Gustavus Vassa’s Autobiography, the marriage certificate between Angelina Grimké and Theodore Weld, an anti-slavery lecture by Frederick Douglass, and letters of the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society, we paint a picture of how abolitionists used written, verbal, and material advocacy to advance their ideals in opposition to a largely pro-slavery society.
