Black Abolitionist Archive

Title: William Wells Brown

Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884

Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Bibliotheque Nationale -- Paris, France

Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Bill stressing the cruelties of its use. The speaker emphasized that the cruelty of slavery was both physical and emotional as human bodies and human families were broken apart in similar fashion. (Includes MP3 audio file.)

Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 732 word document (text and images)

Title: William Craft

Speaker or author: Craft, William

Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Bibliotheque Nationale -- Paris, France

Speech describing the speaker and his wife's escape from slavery. The horrors and injustices of slavery are emphasized.

Description of file(s): PDF 7 page, 2,779 word document (text and images)

Title: William Wells Brown

Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884

Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Dartmouth College -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets

Address given before the Female Anti-Slavery Society in which the speaker answered the question "what is slavery?" with emphasis placed on how slavery affects the character of the American people.

Description of file(s): PDF 24 page, 7,249 word document (text and images)

Title: Charles Williamson

Speaker or author: Williamson, Charles, fl. 1852

Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Foner and Walker, Eds. -- Proceedings of the Black State Conventions 1840-1865, (1980) Vol. 2, pp. 42-49

Speech expressing an encouragement for free black citizens to colonize Africa. The speaker said he had traveled to various countries and no other country offered a better opportunity for freed slaves than Africa.

Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 326 word document (text and image)

Title: Sarah Parker Remond

Speaker or author: Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1887?

Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Journal of Negro History, Volume xxvii (January, 1942) No. 1, pp. 216-218

A brief speech taken from a longer one delivered in London offering an overview of the beginning of slavery in the U.S.

Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 1,244 word document (text and images)

Subtitle: Buying Slaves.

Title: Provincial Freeman - March 8, 1856

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The writer tells his readers about some members of their community who are engaged in a confidence crime of soliciting money from people who are sympathetic to the plight of the slave by lying about their circumstances. This type of crime hurts those who are rightfully in need of aid.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: The Black Swan.

Title: Provincial Freeman - November 18, 1854

Speaker or author: S.

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The writer gives a critique of a review published in the Providence Journal of the type of songs singer Elizabeth Greenfield, the Black Swan, is performing.

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

Title: Sarah Parker Remond

Speaker or author: Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1887?

Newspaper or publication: Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser

Speech delivered before an English audience describing the history and injustices of slavery in the U. S.

Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 790 word document (text and images)

Title: Samuel Ringgold Ward

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

Newspaper or publication: Toronto Globe

Brief speech regarding the injustices of slavery in which the speaker stressed that the people living in the northern U.S. were just as guilty of prejudical injustice as those living in the southern states.

Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 522 word document (text and images)

Subtitle: To The "Hon." Henry Clay, of Kentucky.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - July 2, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

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

Open letter to Henry Clay responding to his "scheme" of Colonization, and the continuation of slavery.

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

Subtitle: New Slave Market.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer informs his readers that the Mormons are now holding slaves and condoning slavery.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: Cruelty.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 26, 1852

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer responds to a report of slaves being subjected to intense cold while chained together on a docked ship.

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

Subtitle: What shall be done with the Freedmen?

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - November 30, 1861

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer discusses options for accepting newly freed slaves into the social structure. He uses the West Indies after emancipation as an example. He notes that in many ways poor white people in the slave states are "lower than the slaves; they are slaves without masters." He wonders here if the government, in an effort to raise the status of these poor white citizens, will indirectly raise the status of the slaves once they are free.

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

Title: William Wells Brown

Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884

Newspaper or publication: Western Times

Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Law and stressing its cruel uses.

Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 1,655 word document (text and images)

Title: William Craft

Speaker or author: Craft, William

Newspaper or publication: Western Times

Speech relating the speaker's experiences as a slave and his subsequent escape. The speaker also denounced the recently passed Fugitive Slave Law.

Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 1,219 word document (text and images)