The Providence Anti-Abolition Society held an inaugural meeting and published resolutions in local newspapers demanding federal suppression of the abolitionist movement on the grounds that it threatened the "sacred rights of property" and existing business and friendship relations between different sections of the United States.

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  Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Brown University

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