Westminster (Mass.). Anti-slavery picnic (1843)
This heading refers to an abolitionist picnic held at Westminster, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1843, one of the Independence Day gatherings at which New England antislavery reformers contrasted the nation's celebration of liberty with the continued existence of slavery. The principal address, "The Voice of Duty," was delivered by Adin Ballou (1803-1890), the Restorationist Universalist minister, advocate of Christian nonresistance, and founder of the Hopedale Community, and was afterward issued as a pamphlet.
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The Voice of Duty (1843) with Adin Ballou
An address delivered at the antislavery picnic at Westminster, Massachusetts, on the anniversary of West Indian emancipation — the abolitionist festival day. Brief and direct, it shows Ballou the reform orator at work in the Garrisonian heyday, calling conscience to duty against slavery regardless of party, church, or consequence.
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