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  • Description is exactly "The Leader was probably getting its information from Fleming's 1905 book. A lot more research needs to be done on this subject. For now, these are the only three sources I know of for the existence of abolitionist societies anywhere in Northwest Alabama other than Madison County, which did have one, the Madison County Colonization Society, founded in January of 1830."

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1. Pages 87 and 92 of "Anti-Slavery Sentiment in the South; With Unpublished Letters from John Stuart Mill and Mrs. Stowe" by Stephen D. Weeks, Ph.D.

Concerning the existence of abolitionist societies in Northwest Alabama, Weeks writes:

"There…
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