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Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention. Assembled in Philadelphia, December 4, 1833.

The broadside declaration is illustrated with a headpiece of Hercules strangling the Nemean lion as two astonished elders look on. Beneath the woodcut is the line, "Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou…