An assortment of resources, some of which provide leads to explore further.
- Fugitive Slave Law Convention, Cazenovia, New York - Getty Museum Collection
- Cazenovia Fugitive Slave Law Convention, August 21-22, 1850
- looks like minutes of the meeting
- descriptions of who attended
- see "Reference Notes" for more information
- includes: A Letter to the American Slaves from those who fled from American Slavery
- Cazenovia Convention: A Meeting of the Minds to Abolish Slavery
- mentions the letter (see notes just above): A Letter to the American Slaves from those who fled from American Slavery
- Fugitive Slave Convention (Wikipedia)
- use this as a tool to back-track to the source(s) of information, and then evaluate the new source for credibility
- check out the "References"
- New York State Historic Newspapers - you can search these
- Example of a posting looking for people to attend meetings (these dates are after the Cazenovia Convention)
- North Star - A Rochester, New York, abolitionist and anti-slavery newspaper published by Frederick Douglass.
- Liberator - Radical abolitionist newspaper, 1883 - 1865, founded and published by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp.
- New York Historical Society and Museum
- The Northern Abolitionist Movement
- A quote from this article: "Lovejoy became known as 'the martyr abolitionist.'"
- citation: Hillstrom, Kevin, and Laurie Collier Hillstrom. "The Northern Abolitionist Movement." American Civil War Reference Library, edited by Lawrence W. Baker, vol. 3: Almanac, UXL, 2000, pp. 15-29. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3410500090/GVRL?u=sunybroome&sid=bookmark-GVRL&xid=48024080. Accessed 26 Aug. 2022.
- Elijah Lovejoy - Today In History - November 7 - Library of Congress
- see above reference to Lovejoy
- The Cazenovia Convention - Historians Against Slavery
- The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings
- The Harp of Freedom by Geo. W. Clark
- The Liberty Minstrel by Geo. W. Clark
- Songs Related to the Abolition of Slavery - Library of Congress (LOC)
- Liberty Songs: A Black Cultural Tradition
- Black Abolitionist Archive - UDM Libraries
- Anti-Slavery Collection - Collection Overview - Boston Public Library (BPL)
- Abolition - The African-American Mosaic - Library of Congress (LOC)
- Slavery And Abolitionist Movement (1790 -1860) - some primary sources to check out here
- Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
- HathiTrust Digital Library - great for finding older publications
- Fashion History Timeline (about)
- The African American Odyssey: Abolition, Anti-Slavery movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy
- Sites of the Fugitive Slave Law Convention - Freethought Trail (about)