Lot 1947
(Abolitionist Movement) Francis Jackson (outspoken abolitionist and President of the Boston Ant-Slavery Society and treasurer of the Boston Vigilance Committee), signed 1844 holograph declaration condemning those who profess democracy and religious sentiment yet do not do anything about the institution of slavery…These are they, whose long payers and hollow speeches, cheat the people and chain the slave. Abolitionists? You who are willing to work for humanity and content to let your popularity shift for itself - it is your mission, with no other instrumentality than truth, to strip off the mask from the hypocrite, and the chain from the slave. Francis Jackson, Hollis Street, Very Fine.Estimate $150 - 200.
As an abolitionist, Jackson assisted fugitive slaves and sheltered many in a room of his house, at Number 31 Hollis Street. He was involved with the trial of Anthony Burns in 1854.In 1854 and 1856 he "was called upon to preside" over the New England Anti-Slavery Convention.
Realized: $135