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Elizur Wright publishes The Sin of Slavery, and Its Remedy Containing Some Reflections on the Moral Influences of African Colonization. Garrison publishes his Thoughts on Colonization. 1833 Prudence Crandall begins admitting black girls to the Female Boarding School in Canterbury, Connecticut. The first World Antislavery Convention is held in London. Connecticut passes the Black Law, designed to stop Crandall’s prac- tice of admitting black students. Crandall is jailed and tried for violating the Black Law. The New York Anti-Slavery Society holds its first meeting. The Maine Anti-Slavery Society is formed. Oberlin College, the first institution of higher education in the United States founded by abolitionists for training students to become abo- litionists, is founded in Ohio. Lydia Maria Child publishes An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. David Lee Child publishes The Despotism of Freedom. John Greenleaf Whittier publishes his first antislavery book, Justice and Expediency. The American Anti-Slavery Society is formed in Philadelphia. Lucretia Mott founds the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. 1834 Amos Phelps publishes Lectures on Slavery and Its Remedy. Students at Lane Seminary in Cincinnati begin 18 days of debates on immediate versus gradual emancipation of slaves. Lewis Tappan’s New York home is vandalized by a proslavery mob intent upon terrorizing the abolitionist. Crandall’s Female Boarding School in Connecticut closes. Orson S. Murray buys the Vermont Telegraph and turns it into a radical abolitionist paper. 1835 The American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race is formed in Boston. xxiv Chronology of American Slavery and Abolitionism