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Black Abolitionist Archive
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Title: Stephen Pembroke Speaker or author: Pembroke, Stephen Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle Anecdotal speech given regarding the speaker's experience with slavery and subsequent escape. Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 702 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 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: Samuel Ringgold Ward Speaker or author: Ward, Samuel Ringgold, b. 1817 Newspaper or publication: British Banner Brief speech delivered while seconding a resolution for continued missionary efforts in Ireland. Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 350 word document (text and images) |
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Title: Samuel Ringgold Ward Speaker or author: Ward, Samuel Ringgold, b. 1817 Newspaper or publication: British Banner Speech given before a British audience explaining the fugitive slave's flight to freedom in Canada. The speaker noted the benefits that Canada offered to the fleeing slave compared with the harsh life of slavery. (Speech 15032 is a duplicate of this speech.) Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 1,498 word document (text and images) |
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Title: William G. Allen Speaker or author: Allen, William G., fl. 1849-1853 Newspaper or publication: Frederick Douglass' Paper Speech offering examples of the cruelty and injustice the speaker had experienced and heard of resulting from racial prejudice. The speaker said he agreed with the resolution that slavery was a "sin and crime against God." Description of file(s): PDF 6 page, 1,372 word document (text and images) |
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Title: R. R. Raymond Speaker or author: Raymond, R. R., Rev. Newspaper or publication: Frederick Douglass' Paper Speech given before the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society regarding the cruelties of slavery and the suffering of those enslaved. The speaker noted the importance of the role of women in the effort to end slavery. Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 424 word document (text and images) |
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Title: Charles Lenox Remond Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 Newspaper or publication: Frederick Douglass' Paper Speech comparing the fugitive slave rescue experiences in Syracuse with similar rescues in Boston. The speaker stressed that injustices and prejudices are not only prevalent in both cities, but in the entire country. Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 754 word document (text and images) |
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Title: Samuel Ringgold Ward Speaker or author: Ward, Samuel Ringgold, b. 1817 Newspaper or publication: Frederick Douglass' Paper Speech delivered to second a motion put forward during the meeting that slavery "...is a sin and a crime before God." The speaker praised England for the having the courage to abolition slavery and encouraging other European countries to do the same. Description of file(s): PDF 9 page, 2,095 word document (text and images) |
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Title: William J. Watkins Speaker or author: Watkins, William J. Newspaper or publication: Frederick Douglass' Paper Impassioned speech delivered on the anniversary of the emancipation of the British West Indies. The speaker stressed that while this was a cause to celebrate, the continuation of slavery in the U.S. was evidence that there was still more work to be done. The speaker emphasized the history of the fight for freedom that accompanied the history of slavery. He stresssed that slavery was not vanquished until both issues were resolved. Description of file(s): PDF 25 page, 5,747 word document (text and images) |
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Title: William Wells Brown Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 Newspaper or publication: Liberator Overview of a brief speech dwelling mostly on the effects of prejudice towards the people of color in the northern states. (Includes MP3 audio file.) Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 169 word document (text and image) |
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Title: William Wells Brown Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 Newspaper or publication: Liberator The speaker related a personal experience with American prejudice against color and how this attitude changed once white Americans set foot on European soil. (Includes MP3 audio file.) Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 254 word document (text and image) |
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Title: William Wells Brown Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 Newspaper or publication: Liberator Speech given on the return of the speaker to the U.S. from England where he had been living as a fugitive from slavery. The speaker commended Great Britain for abolishing the slave trade and hoped that this action would inspire the U.S. to follow the same path. Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 1,124 word document (text and images) |
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Title: William C. Nell Speaker or author: Nell, William C. (William Cooper), 1816-1874. Newspaper or publication: Liberator Speech delivered to welcome home William Wells Brown who returned from England a free man after being rescued from slavery and fugitive status by "British philanthropy." Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 570 word document (text and images) |
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Title: J. W. C. Pennington Speaker or author: Pennington, James W. C. Newspaper or publication: Liberator Overview of speech stressing the silent compliance of the Church regarding the issue of slavery. He noted that by their lack of action, both Church and politicians have in this way encouraged the continuation of slavery in the U.S. Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 780 word document (text and images) |
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Title: Robert Purvis Speaker or author: Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898 Newspaper or publication: Liberator Eloquent speech in which the speaker reinforced the precepts of the abolitionists' cause. He said that philanthropy would help abolition by providing the energy to express: "...I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard." Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 1,385 word document (text and images) |
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Title: Charles Lenox Remond Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 Newspaper or publication: Liberator Brief speech in which the speaker noted that he'd rather have been born a slave than be born a white man who bowed down to do the bidding of the southern slaveholder. He felt that white men who would behave this way were of lower caste than slaves. Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 211 word document (text and image) |
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Title: Charles Lenox Remond Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 Newspaper or publication: Liberator Overview of brief speech emphasizing how the "evils of slavery" had effected everyone in the U.S., and not just those in the southern states. Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 132 word document (text and image) |
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Title: Charles Lenox Remond Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 Newspaper or publication: Liberator Overview of speech given in response to another speaker's comment that prejudice to color in the U.S. was the same as prejudice to caste in European countries. The speaker disagreed with this since he believed that black Americans were treated far worse than lower caste citizens in other countries. Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 457 word document (text and images) |
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Title: Charles Lenox Remond Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 Newspaper or publication: Liberator Speaker commented on the comparison Frederick Douglass made between the rescue of William "Jerry" Henry in Syracuse and the case of the fugitive Anthony Burns in Boston. Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 204 word document (text and image) |
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Title: Charles Lenox Remond Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 Newspaper or publication: Liberator The speaker praised the action of William Lloyd Garrison in burning the U. S. Constitution to make a point about the injustice of slavery. Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 144 word document (text and image) |