American Anti-Slavery Society. Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Adopted at the Formation of said Society, in Philadelphia, on the 4th day of December, 1833. No. 1. [New York]: William S. Dorr for the American Anti-Slavery Society, [circa 1844]. 

8vo, 4 pages. Caption title, single sheet folded. Dumond, p. 9 (incorrectly attributes the publication date as 1833); LCP, Afro-Americana 285; Sabin 81825.

An exceptionally fine four-page prospectus for the Anti-Slavery Society, including a lengthy declaration of its philosophy and goals, the preamble to its constitution, and an address from the 10th Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society held in New York on 7 May 1844. The pamphlet concludes with a listing of abolitionist newspapers and where they can be obtained. 

Likely printed in commemoration of the anniversary of the Society, the most influential abolitionist group in America, which was founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. By 1840, it had spawned 2,000 subsidiary anti-slavery organizations containing some 200,000 members, including Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lewis Tappan, and William Wells Brown. 

RARE. Only 4 copies have sold at auction, though the publication date is occasionally erroneously listed as 1833. 

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