Note 41 — Chapter IV · Anti-slavery Societies
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The following recommendations were made in substance:
1. That all the manumission societies in the United States proclaim it as the Christian American Jubilee.
2. That the different societies encourage the keeping of the day, as a Jubilee, by publishing essays, songs, etc., showing the utility thereof.
3. That those societies celebrate the Fourth of July, next, with preaching, prayer, and singing as a Christian Jubilee.
4. That those who are sensible of the evil of slavery, form themselves into Christian Manumission Societies, excluding slaveholders from their number.
5. That they send forth missionaries to preach the acceptable year of the Lord to slaveholders.
6. That all these societies establish a correspondence with each other through the Genius of Universal Emancipation. The Genius, IV, 143.