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Title: Edward Scott

Speaker or author: Scott, Edward, fl. 1857

Newspaper or publication: Christian News

Speech relating how southern slave owners use religion to encourage slaves to obey their masters. Religion was used as a means to justify cruelty for the slaveholder. The speaker related his own personal story of his life as a slave and his subsequent escape.

Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 674 word document (text and images)

Title: Moses Roper

Speaker or author: Roper, Moses

Newspaper or publication: Patriot

Anecdotal speech delivered at Reverend T. Price's Chapel in England on the cruelities suffered by slaves in America. He addresses the issues of education, the assistance provided by the Quakers, and the "good" vs. "bad" treatment slaves receive from slaveholders.

Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 571 word document (text and images)

Title: Moses Roper

Speaker or author: Roper, Moses

Newspaper or publication: Patriot

Anecdotal speech delivered before the congregation at Reverend T. Price's Chapel in England on the cruelties suffered by slaves in America. The speaker stressed the progress of the anti-slavery society. (Speech 01285 is a duplicate of this speech.)

Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 209 word document (text and image)

Title: Nathaniel Paul

Speaker or author: Paul, Nathaniel, 1792 or 3-1839

Newspaper or publication: Liberator

Speech given before the Glasgow Emancipation Society recognizing the society's accomplishments and encouraging them to continue their efforts towards emancipation.

Description of file(s): PDF 7 page, 1,580 word document (images and text)

Subtitle: "Stealing the Livery of Heaven to Serve the Devil."

Title: Provincial Freeman - April 4, 1857

Speaker or author: Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The writer responds to those who believe that the refugees from slavery who are arriving in her area are needing of aid and in a dire state. The assumption that those of African descent living in Canada are needy and barely surviving is insulting.

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

Subtitle: Canadian Churches fellowshiping the Proslavery Religious Bodies of the United States.

Title: Provincial Freeman - December 13, 1856

Speaker or author: Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The writer discusses the influence of the "American Church" on the continuation of the system of slavery in the U.S.

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

Title: Provincial Freeman - June 20, 1857

Speaker or author: Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The writer responds to an accusation printed in another newspaper that the Provincial Freeman had misreported the amount of money he received from charity after losing property in a fire.

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

Subtitle: More Begging! Elder Piper, Free Mission Baptist Missionary at Chatham!! Clothes for Fugitives!!

Title: Provincial Freeman - May 30, 1857

Speaker or author: Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The writer calls attention to the continued solicitation of charity for fugitive slaves living in Canada. This type of "begging" for help is unwelcomed and unwanted by the people of African descent living in Canada.

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

Title: Provincial Freeman - November 24, 1855

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The writer alerts his readers to a need for donations to build a church in Dresden.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: The Churches and Slavery. -- The Regular Baptists --

Title: Provincial Freeman - September 1857

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The editor comments on the differences of opinions regarding slavery among the various groups of Baptists. (Portions are illegible)

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

Subtitle: The Churches and Slavery. -- The Regular Baptists --

Title: Provincial Freeman - September 1857

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The editor comments on the differences of opinions regarding slavery among the various groups of Baptists. (Portions are illegible)

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

Subtitle: The Churches and Slavery. -- The Regular Baptists --

Title: Provincial Freeman - September 1857

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The editor comments on the differences of opinions regarding slavery among the various groups of Baptists. (Portions are illegible)

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

Subtitle: The Churches and Slavery. -- The Regular Baptists --

Title: Provincial Freeman - September 1857

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The editor comments on the differences of opinions regarding slavery among the various groups of Baptists. (Portions are illegible)

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

Subtitle: The Churches and Slavery. -- The Regular Baptists --

Title: Provincial Freeman - September 1857

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The editor comments on the differences of opinions regarding slavery among the various groups of Baptists. (Portions are illegible)

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

Subtitle: Rev. Josiah Henson and the Church.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - September 23, 1852

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer responds to an article regarding a speech by Josiah Henson published in another newspaper. The article complained that Rev. Henson's comments regarding prejudice in the "white Church" were unwarranted.

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

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