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title: 'The First Colored Convention'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'James William Charles Pennington'
date: 1859-10-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'History (General)'
- 'Slavery'
- 'United States'
scriptures:
- 'Isaiah 61'
- 'Galatians 3'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/pennington-1859-the-first-colored-convention
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# The First Colored Convention

Account of the First Colored Convention (Philadelphia, 1830): Hezekiah Grice and leaders debated emigration to Canada, opposed colonization, and advanced early abolitionist organizing.

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