The first National Negro Convention of Free Men agreed to boycott slave-produced goods.

The first National Negro Convention began in Philadelphia, 1830, where they agreed to boycott slave-produced goods.

In the early months of 1830, a young freed man from Baltimore named Hezekiah Grice was not satisfied with life in the North because of the “hopelessness of contending against oppression in the United States.”

Grice wrote to a number of Black American leaders asking if freedmen should emigrate to Canada and, if a convention could be held to discuss the issue.

By September 15, 1830 the first National Negro Convention was held in Philadelphia.

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