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Black Abolitionist Archive
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Title: Edward Wilmot Blyden Speaker or author: Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 1832-1912. Newspaper or publication: African Repository Speech describing the geographical and cultural aspects of Ethiopia, Liberia and other explored areas of Africa. The speaker encouraged an evangelical approach to colonization of Africa. Description of file(s): PDF 18 page, 7,230 word document (text and images) |
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Title: Edward Wilmot Blyden Speaker or author: Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 1832-1912. Newspaper or publication: African Repository Inaugural speech given at the founding of the first college in West Africa. The speaker stressed the importance of education in the formation of Liberia. Description of file(s): PDF 22 page, 8,619 word document (text and images) |
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Title: Edward Wilmot Blyden Speaker or author: Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 1832-1912. Newspaper or publication: African Repository The speaker described life in Africa with the U.S. colonization efforts taking place there. He encouraged freed slaves to immigrate and participate in the colonization of Liberia and Ethiopia. Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 1,331 word document (text and images) |
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Title: Edward Wilmot Blyden Speaker or author: Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 1832-1912. Newspaper or publication: African Repository Speech delivered on the 18th anniversary of Liberian Independence. The speaker stressed the accomplishments of the nation of Liberia and suggested amendments to its constitution. Description of file(s): PDF 10 page, 4,406 word document (text and images) |
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Title: William Jones Speaker or author: Jones, William Newspaper or publication: American Freeman Anecdotal speech regarding one man's experience with slavery and his praise of Gerrit Smith's benevolence. Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 292 word document (text and images) |
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Title: William Howard Day Speaker or author: Day, William Howard, d. 1900 Newspaper or publication: Anglo-African Speech given on the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the British West Indies. The speaker emphasized that now the U.S. could claim its place among the countries that had abandoned slavery. He expressed gratitude for those who had fought and died in the Civil War in the cause of freedom. Description of file(s): PDF 7 page, 1,697 word document (text and images) |
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Title: William Wells Brown Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Advocate Anecdoatal speech regarding the speaker's encounter with the Reverend Dr. Richard Fuller, a slaveholding minister from South Carolina. The speaker emphasized the kindness and courtesy he had received from Dr. and Mrs. Fuller during his visit. (Includes MP3 audio file.) Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 609 word document (text and images) |
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Title: William Andrew Jackson Speaker or author: Jackson, William Andrew, b. 1832 Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Advocate Brief overview of speech by the coachman of Jefferson Davis (who had recently escaped and settled in England) describing his experience with slavery. (See duplicate speech 26152.) Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 301 word document (text and image) |
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Title: William J. Watkins Speaker or author: Watkins, William J. Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Advocate Speech denouncing the doctrine of "Compensated Emancipation." Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 533 word document (text and images) |
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Title: William Wells Brown Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle Speech regarding the influence of religion and the Church in the continuation of slavery. The speaker noted that "The teaching of religion has always favored slavery," and he noted two theologians who had publicly taught that "...God ordained the institution (of slavery)." Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 859 word document (text and images) |
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Title: William Wells Brown Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle The speaker addressed the issues of slave trading and "slave raising," and stressed that the acceptance of these had been passed down from generation to generation. As a mulatto, he believed he offered a type of bridge between races. He related a story of the kindness shown to him in Massachusetts that he hadn't known before, but stressed that this bit of kindness had not stopped him from working to end slavery. Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 878 word document (text and images) |
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Title: William Wells Brown Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle The speaker emphasized the prejudice that had come about as a result of slavery. He noted that the prejudice of the times was based on race, not color, and this related directly to slavery, not appearance. Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 353 word document (text and images) |
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Title: William Wells Brown Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle The speaker asked for all present to agree that the government had become a conspiracy against freedom. He read an excerpt from a southern newspaper demonstrating the fear of emancipated slaves that the southern states held, and that they used to continue slavery there. He expressed that recent government legislation was compelling those who were fighting for emancipation to take a more radical approach. Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 1,438 word document (text and images) |
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Title: William J. Watkins Speaker or author: Watkins, William J. Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle The speaker emphasized that he was not in favor of dissolving the union. He was in favor of ending slavery at all costs, however, including revolution. Description of file(s): PDF 6 page, 1,575 word document (text and images) |
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Title: William Howard Day Speaker or author: Day, William Howard, d. 1900 Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter Brief overview of speech in which the speaker addressed the issue of fugitive slaves who had escaped to England. He urged these fugitives to be careful to follow British law and to be on guard for kidnappers. Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 163 word document (text and image) |
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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) |