Vol. 10 - No. 17. Whole No. 479.  4 pp., 6 columns, measuring 16-20. Exhibits slight soiling, fold-marks, and light chipping at margins & at fold-marks center points. Else VG, & entirely legible.

The Anti-Slavery Bugle was the weekly newspaper of the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, later the Western Anti-Slavery Society. It began publication in 1845 and was the only Garrisonian -style abolitionist periodical west of the Appalachians. This issue appeared during the opening phase of the Taylor administration, a year in advance of the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, which would harden anti-slavery sentiment across the north.

The masthead sports the Garrison motto—“No Union With Slaveholders”—and the front page contains an address of abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, delivered to the Mercantile Library Association. Also contains news on slavery in Utah, a letter from Salmon P. Chase, as well as “Six Sonnets On Negro Slavery”, reprinted from the Liberator.

Intact copies of the Salem, OH, Anti-Slavery Bugle are extremely scarce. Fine newspaper collectible.