Black Abolitionist Archive

Title: Samuel Ringgold Ward

Speaker or author: Ward, Samuel Ringgold, b. 1817

Newspaper or publication: Pennsylvania Freeman

Speech responding to a claim made by Captain Isaiah Rynders that he could prove the Negro race had descended from monkeys. Captain Rynders and a man referred to as Dr. Grant were attempting to convince others of the racial inferiority of the Negro race.

Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 531 word document (text and images)

Title: James McCune Smith

Speaker or author: Smith, James McCune, 1813-1865

Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Fifth Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, pp. 24-30

Speech in response to a resolution put forward for the American Anti-Slavery Society to support similar societies in Britain and France in their efforts to abolish slavery.

Description of file(s): PDF 7 page, 3,443 word document (text and images)

Title: Charles W. Gardner

Speaker or author: Gardner, Charles

Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Fourth Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society, pp. 11-15

Speech given regarding the possible positive results of immediate emancipation, and how freed slaves will live in and contribute to society.

Description of file(s): PDF 8 page, 3,084 word document (text and images)

Title: Henry Highland Garnet

Speaker or author: Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882.

Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Seventh Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, pp. 1-7

Speech given on the seventh anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society in response to a resolution put forth stating that all rights and immunities of American citizenship should be afforded to all Americans including the free people of color.

Description of file(s): PDF 7 page, 2,813 word document (text and images)

Title: George Douglas

Speaker or author: Douglas, George

Newspaper or publication: Signal of Liberty

Brief narrative regarding how slaves feel about the help they're receiving from the abolitionists in the north.

Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 245 word document (text and image)

Subtitle: Literature. The Colored People of North America.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - June 3, 1852

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

The writer provides a brief review of a soon to be published literary work by Martin R. Delany. In his work, Delany discusses colonization and how it is affecting the U.S. and other parts of the world.

Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page

Subtitle: Rev. Joshua Leavitt D. D.--A Pervert.

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - April 12, 1862

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)

Dr. Joshua Leavitt, long time leader in the American Anti-Slavery Society, seems now to believe that Colonization is the answer to the question "what do we do with the freed slaves?" The writer comments on Dr. Leavitt's contradictory views.

Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)

Subtitle: Wise Silence -- Just Speech.

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - May 4, 1861

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)

The writer comments on the American Anti-Slavery Society's decision to postpone their annual meeting.

Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page

Title: Lunsford Lane

Speaker or author: Lane, Lunsford, b. 1803.

Newspaper or publication: Western Citizen

Speech given by Lunsford Lane describing how he purchased his family from slavery.

Description of file(s): PDF 10 page, 2,551 word document (text and images)