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Historically Speaking: Our part in history By Barbara Rimkunas In June of 1835, the newly formed New Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society met in Concord. Among the many resolutions passed was this: “Resolved, That this Society earnestly recommend to all its auxiliaries, to circulate, as soon as practicable, in their respective vicinities, petitions for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and forward the same to Congress, at the opening of the next session of that body.” The issue of slavery, which even abolitionists had to admit was recognized as legal by the United States Constitution, had become a divisive, intractable, issue by the 1830s. It had not, as many had hoped, withered away due to economic forces. Even with the constitutionally dictated elimination of slave importation in 1808, the use of racially based enslavement continued unabated. In most of the north, the use of enslaved labor was uncommon – many states had outlawed the practi

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