{"id":391,"date":"2016-07-31T17:20:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T17:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2016-07-31T17:20:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T17:20:12","slug":"early-abolition-massachusetts-general-colored-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/early-abolition-massachusetts-general-colored-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Abolition:  Massachusetts General Colored Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several members of the Prince Hall Lodge \u00a0met in 1826 and established the Massachusetts General Colored Association &#8220;to promote the welfare of the race by working for the destruction of slavery.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts_General_Colored_Association#cite_note-Mjagkij2003_p._282-1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts_General_Colored_Association#cite_note-Cromwell1994-3\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0The elected officers were<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Dalton_(abolitionist)\">Thomas Dalton<\/a>, President<\/li>\n<li>William G. Nell, Vice President<\/li>\n<li>James G. Barbadoes, Secretary.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts_General_Colored_Association#cite_note-Mjagkij2003_p._282-1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts_General_Colored_Association#cite_note-Cromwell1994-3\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of their most influential founders was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Walker_(abolitionist)\">David Walker<\/a>, who probably expressed many of their ideas in his 1829 &#8220;Appeal in Four Articles to the Colored Citizens of the World&#8221;. Walker had moved to Boston and in 1825 was the owner of a used clothing store. In March 1827, he began writing for and selling subscriptions to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom%27s_Journal\">Freedom&#8217;s Journal<\/a>, the first national newspaper in the country published by blacks.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts_General_Colored_Association#cite_note-Mjagkij2003_p._282-1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other founding members included\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walker_Lewis\">Walker Lewis<\/a>, John Scarlett and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_T._Hilton\">John T. Hilton<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts_General_Colored_Association#cite_note-Mjagkij2003_p._282-1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0The organization was said to have had &#8220;among its leaders the most spirited and intelligent colored citizens of Boston.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts_General_Colored_Association#cite_note-Cromwell1994-3\"><sup>[<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several members of the Prince Hall Lodge \u00a0met in 1826 and established the Massachusetts General Colored Association &#8220;to promote the welfare of the race by working for the destruction of slavery.&#8221;[1][2]\u00a0The elected officers were Thomas Dalton, President William G. Nell, Vice President James G. Barbadoes, Secretary.[1][2] One of their most influential founders was\u00a0David Walker, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/early-abolition-massachusetts-general-colored-association\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Early Abolition:  Massachusetts General Colored Association<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}