Massachusetts General Colored Association

Several members of the Prince Hall Lodge[nb 1] met in 1826 and established the Massachusetts General Colored Association "to promote the welfare of the race by working for the destruction of slavery.

"[1][2] The elected officers were One of their most influential founders was David Walker, who probably expressed many of their ideas in his 1829 Appeal in Four Articles to the Colored Citizens of the World.

In March 1827, he began writing for and selling subscriptions to Freedom's Journal, the first national newspaper in the country published by blacks.

[1] In January 1833, Dalton as president led a successful petition for the Massachusetts General Colored Association[4] to join the New England Anti-Slavery Society founded by William Lloyd Garrison, editor of The Liberator.

[6] "Although the all-black association was short lived, its members helped create a new era of militant antislavery agitation that shook the nation before the Civil War.

Massachusetts General Colored Association Notice, April 27, 1833 in The Liberator (anti-slavery newspaper)
Order of exercises at the Fourth of July celebration by the New-England Anti-Slavery Society, at Boylston Hall, 1834. "... The music by a colored juvenile choir under the direction of Miss Susan Paul."