Conn. Anti-slavery Society of Meriden

This entry refers not to a single person but to the Anti-slavery Society of Meriden, Connecticut, a local abolitionist group active in the 19th century. It is best known today for An Apology for Abolitionists, a pamphlet associated with the society and signed on its behalf by Philo Pratt, Walter Webb, and Isaac I. Tibbals.

That publication speaks in the plain, persuasive style of grassroots reform, defending abolitionism and addressing readers directly as neighbors and fellow citizens. Because surviving records in the sources I found are limited, it is safest to describe the society as a collective voice within the broader American abolitionist movement rather than to assign it a fuller institutional history than can be confirmed.

For audiobook listeners, the interest lies in that immediacy: this is not a distant summary of abolition, but a piece of advocacy from people who were living the debate as it unfolded.