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Black Abolitionist Archive
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Subtitle: Robert Campbell Title: Martin Robison Delany Speaker or author: Campbell, Robert, of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Newspaper or publication: AD Draft -- Royal Geological Society Archives, London, England -- Copyright Permission Pending -- Handwritten speech detailing the findings of a geographical expedition made by two explorers: Martin Delany and Robert Campbell. The text details the land mass, the villages, the people, the climate, and the general discoveries made of Western Africa. (This transcription includes the original editing marks made by the writers.) Description of file(s): PDF 8 page, 1,610 word document (text and images) |
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Title: Hezekiah Ford Douglass Speaker or author: Douglass, H. Ford Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle Expressive and dramatic speech regarding the continuation of American slavery long after the British had emancipated the West Indies. The speaker emphasized the historical movements of humanity towards freedom and liberty that he believed would always triumph. Description of file(s): PDF 12 page, 2,857 word document (text and images) |
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Title: H. Ford Douglass Speaker or author: Douglass, H. Ford Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle In this election year, the speaker encouraged continued vigilance in the fight for abolition of slavery. The speaker stressed where each party and each presidential candidate stood on the issue of slavery. Description of file(s): PDF 12 page, 3,422 word document (text and images) |
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Title: H. Ford Douglass Speaker or author: Douglass, H. Ford Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle The speaker offered his thoughts on prejudice, saying, "When we are free, men will find it to be a fact that there is no prejudice against color. It is the condition, not the color. My color serves as a badge, indicating that I belong to a race which in this land has been doomed to degredation. And just so long as we consent to occupy a subordinate condition, and submit without murmuring to our degradation, there is no prejudice against us. So long as the black man is willing to be a slave in this country, all is well enough, but whenever he attempts to take the position of a freeman, it is then the white man seems to hate him." The speaker stressed that prejudice is about slavery, not about skin color. Description of file(s): PDF 10 page, 2,626 word document (text and images) |
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Title: John J. Gaines Speaker or author: Gaines, John J. Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle Speech describing the effects of prejudice in the U.S. on living arrangements and education. Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 872 word document (text and images) |
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Title: John Mercer Langston Speaker or author: Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897. Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle Speech regarding the inhumanity of slavery, emphasizing the government backing the institution of slavery receives that keeps it strongly in place. Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 973 word document (text and images) |
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Title: John Mercer Langston Speaker or author: Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897. Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle Brief speech discounting the Democratic party's pro-slavery stance and the laws that had resulted from its influence. Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 491 word document (text and images) |
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Title: John Mercer Langston Speaker or author: Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897. Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle The speaker stressed that where there is one person legally enslaved in the U.S., there is no liberty for anyone. Slavery makes slaves of us all. When a government encourages slavery, it evokes a need to control the slaves. This requires laws which limit freedom for everyone. The speaker offered examples to substantiate his ideas. Description of file(s): PDF 12 page, 3,349 word document (text and images) |
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Title: Henry Highland Garnet Speaker or author: Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882 Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter Brief speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Bill. The speaker also encouraged his audience to buy "free-labor" goods instead of those produced by slave labor. Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 436 word document (image and text) |
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Title: Henry Highland Garnet Speaker or author: Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882 Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Law, and focusing on the efforts of the Church in the continuation of the system of slavery. Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 882 word document (text and images) |
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Title: Henry Highland Garnet Speaker or author: Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882 Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter Speech before a British audience condemning slavery in the U.S. The speaker pointed out the irony of the American stance on freedom when it continued to enslave millions of people. He also praised the work of British abolitionists. Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 1,445 word document (text and images) |
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Title: Henry Highland Garnet Speaker or author: Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882. Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter Speech calling for an end to slavery and asking that America join this fight for the emancipation of all slaves. He says: "The children of Africa, scattered as they were all over the world, unnationed, appealed to America for redress -- that America whose sails whiten every sea, and whose diplomatic parchment is lying in every court..." Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 312 word document (text and image) |
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Title: Stephen H. Gloucester Speaker or author: Gloucester, Stephen H. Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter Speech given in response to a resolution put forth for the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society to work peacefully towards the abolition of slavery. Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 635 word document (text and images) |
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Title: James W. C. Pennington Speaker or author: Pennington, James W. C. Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter Speech given in protest of the British idea for people to immigrate from Africa to the West Indies to work in that country. The speaker argued that this was just another form of slavery under the guise of immigration. (Speech 06979 is a duplicate of this speech.) Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 1,594 word document (text and images) |
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Title: J. W. C. Pennington Speaker or author: Pennington, James W. C. Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter Speech regarding the colonization of Africa in terms of emigration, and the continued injustices of American slavery. The speaker offered praise for the work of American abolitionists in their efforts to correct state constitutions that included wording that implied the superiority of the white population in America. Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 1,222 word document (text and images) |
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Title: J. W. C. Pennington Speaker or author: Pennington, James W. C. Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter The speaker stressed that the people of color in the U.S. will never be reconciled to slavery, although they do express a love of this country. Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 208 word document (text and image) |
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Title: J. W. C. Pennington Speaker or author: Pennington, James W. C. Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter Speech given during a celebration of the August 1st anniversary of the emancipation of the British West Indies stressing the progress of the anti-slavery movements and abolition in the U. S. Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 2,020 word document (text and images) |
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Title: Samuel Ringgold Ward Speaker or author: Ward, Samuel Ringgold, b. 1817 Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter Brief speech questioning the ideas of those opposed to the anti-slavery movements, emphasizing that they had not offered a forum for debate about their opposing views. Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 384 word document (text and image) |
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Title: Samuel Ringgold Ward Speaker or author: Ward, Samuel Ringgold, b. 1817 Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter The speaker addressed a meeting called to form a local anti-slavery society in Essex, England. He stressed that one way to end slavery was to refuse to purchase slave-labor produced goods. (Speech 15734 is a duplicate of this speech.) Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 107 word document (text and image) |
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Title: William G. Allen Speaker or author: Allen, William G., fl. 1849-1853 Newspaper or publication: Belfast Newsletter Overview of a speech regarding the history of American slavery. The speaker noted that American Indians had been at one time considered for slavery, but that they were not as suited for it as African captives. The speaker said that what was wanted was not so much emancipation as it was the "...eradication of the principles of slavery, and the prejudice against slaves, which existed in American breasts..." He wished for an end to slavery as well as the effects of slavery on a society that had grown strong from slave labor. (Includes MP3 audio file.) Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 405 word document (text and images) |