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HISTORICAL ANNOTATION 731

1843, now controlled by supporters of Garrison, the idea of a national speaking tour
of "'One Hundred Conventions," conceived by the American Anti-Slavery Society's
general agent John A. Collins, was endorsed to stimulate the formation of new local
auxiliaries. NASS. 2 March I 843: Thomas D. Hamm, God's Government Begun: The
Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, 1842-1846 (Bloomington, Ind., 1995),
88 90: Stanley Harrold, American Abolitionists (New York, 2001), 32- 34; Zorn,
"New England Anti-Slavery Society," 159-60. 163-64, 173- 76.

176.3 one hundred conventions] As part of a Garrisonian lecturing campaign
known as the "One Hundred Conventions," Douglass traveled extensively in July,
August, and September 1843. He usually spoke in the company of George Bradburn
and John A. Collins, but Sydney Howard Gay, Charles Lenox Remond, William A.
White, Abby Kelley, and other abolitionists sometimes joined him. After speaking in
Vermont in mid-July, Douglass and his companions lectured in central and western
New York in August. and in Ohio and Indiana in September. Lib., 23 June, 21 July, 11
August, 8, 22 Scptcmbcr, 13 October 1843: NASS, 22 June. 3, 10, 31 August, 14
September, 19 October l 843.

176.10 George Bradburn] Son of a woolens manufacturer in Attleboro,
Massachusetts. George Bradburn (1806-80) trained for the Unitarian ministry, but
subsequently devoted his energies to championing numerous secular reforms.
Bradburn also acted as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1839, and
he attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840. He was not a strict
Garistonian however, opposing all propositions in favor of dissolving the Union and
favoring political means to accomplish the abolition of slavery. Bradburn represented
Nantuckct as a Whig in the state lcg1slaturc ( 1839- 42), where he led the successful
effort to repeal Massachusetts's antimiscegenation law. In the I 840s he lectured for
the (Garrisonians and traveled with Douglass on many occasions. He later joined the
Free Soil party and edited two Free Soil newspapers, the Pioneer and Herald of
Freedom and the True Democrat. In addition to abolitionism. Bradburn supported
women 's rights, temperance, pacifism, and an end to capital punishment. Massachusetts
Anti-Slavery Society, Eleventh Annual Report: Presented to the Massachusetts Anti-
Slavery Society by its Board of Directors (Boston, 1843 ), 44, 90-91; idem. Twelfth
Annual Report: Presented to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (Boston. 1844),
34; George Bradburn, A Memorial of George Bradburn, comp. Frances H. Bradburn
(Boston, 1883).

176. 11 Charles L. Remond] Noted black antislavery lecturer Charles Lenox
Remond (1810-73) was born to free parents in Salem, Massachusetts, where, like his
father, who was an immigrant from Curacao, he worked as a barber. Remond became
active in reform movements at an early age. A member of the Colored Association of
Massachusetts when it merged with the New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1833,
he became an officer in the latter organization . By 1838 Remond had begun his career
as a lecturer under the auspices of the American Anti-Slavery Society. A delegate to
the 1840 World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London. Remond traveled and lectured

HISTORICAL ANNOTATION

731

1843, now controlled by supporters of Garrison, the idea of a national speaking tour
of "'One Hundred Conventions," conceived by the American Anti-Slavery Society's
general agent John A. Collins, was endorsed to stimulate the formation of new local
auxiliaries. NASS. 2 March I 843: Thomas D. Hamm, God's Government Begun: The
Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, 1842-1846 (Bloomington, Ind., 1995),
88 90: Stanley Harrold, American Abolitionists (New York, 2001), 32- 34; Zorn,
"New England Anti-Slavery Society," 159-60. 163-64, 173- 76.
176.3
one hundred conventions] As part of a Garrisonian lecturing campaign
known as the "One Hundred Conventions," Douglass traveled extensively in July,
August, and September 1843. He usually spoke in the company of George Bradburn
and John A. Collins, but Sydney Howard Gay, Charles Lenox Remond, William A.
White, Abby Kelley, and other abolitionists sometimes joined him. After speaking in
Vermont in mid-July, Douglass and his companions lectured in central and western
New York in August. and in Ohio and Indiana in September. Lib., 23 June, 21 July, 11
August, 8, 22 Scptcmbcr, 13 October 1843: NASS, 22 June. 3, 10, 31 August, 14
September, 19 October l 843.
176.10
George Bradburn] Son of a woolens manufacturer in Attleboro,
Massachusetts. George Bradburn (1806-80) trained for the Unitarian ministry, but
subsequently devoted his energies to championing numerous secular reforms.
Bradburn also acted as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1839, and
he attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840. He was not a strict
Garistonian however, opposing all propositions in favor of dissolving the Union and
favoring political means to accomplish the abolition of slavery. Bradburn represented
Nantuckct as a Whig in the state lcg1slaturc ( 1839- 42), where he led the successful
effort to repeal Massachusetts's antimiscegenation law. In the I 840s he lectured for
the (Garrisonians and traveled with Douglass on many occasions. He later joined the
Free Soil party and edited two Free Soil newspapers, the Pioneer and Herald of
Freedom and the True Democrat. In addition to abolitionism. Bradburn supported
women 's rights, temperance, pacifism, and an end to capital punishment. Massachusetts
Anti-Slavery Society, Eleventh Annual Report: Presented to the Massachusetts Anti-
Slavery Society by its Board of Directors (Boston, 1843 ), 44, 90-91; idem. Twelfth
Annual Report: Presented to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (Boston. 1844),
34; George Bradburn, A Memorial of George Bradburn, comp. Frances H. Bradburn
(Boston, 1883).
176. 11
Charles L. Remond] Noted black antislavery lecturer Charles Lenox
Remond (1810-73) was born to free parents in Salem, Massachusetts, where, like his
father, who was an immigrant from Curacao, he worked as a barber. Remond became
active in reform movements at an early age. A member of the Colored Association of
Massachusetts when it merged with the New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1833,
he became an officer in the latter organization . By 1838 Remond had begun his career
as a lecturer under the auspices of the American Anti-Slavery Society. A delegate to
the 1840 World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London. Remond traveled and lectured