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Title: Alexander Crummell

Speaker or author: Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898

Newspaper or publication: New York Public Library -- Schomburg Collection

The speaker stressed the history, benefit, and continued need of missionary work in Africa. He emphasized the work of Jewish, Baptist, Episcopalian, Catholic, Evangelical, Presbyterian and Protestant missionaries.

Description of file(s): PDF 19 page, 5,354 word document (text and images)

Subtitle: Our Old Colored Ministers.

Title: Black Republican - April 15, 1865

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Black Republican (1865)

The writer responds to a suggestion that the older ministers of the Church be replaced by younger men.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Title: Colored American - June 20, 1840

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)

The writer provides an overview of a recent conference of the Methodist Episcopalian Church. He emphasizes the controversy that developed when the topic of slavery and abolition was introduced.

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

Subtitle: Prejudice in the Church.

Title: Colored American - March 11, 1837

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)

The writer notes the irony of the prejudice evident among white Christian ministers towards the black members of their congregations. This prejudice encourages a pronounced separation between white and black churches. This type of prejudice influences the delay in the abolition of slavery and subtly encouraged its continuation.

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

Subtitle: Education.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - December 3, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer tells his readers that money was left by "the late Mr. Bloomfield" for education in Africa. The writer wonders if this money wouldn't have been put to better use education African Americans instead.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: Is the M. E. Church of the North Pro-Slavery?

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - June 18, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

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

The editor responds to a reader who took exception to an article accusing northern Methodist Episcopal ministers of slave-holding. This is just one more way that the Church seems to condone slavery.

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

Subtitle: Southern Divinity.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - November 19, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer points out the irony in the conduct of ministers, who preach the teachings of the Bible, yet use this doctrine to justify slavery.

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

Title: William Craft

Speaker or author: Craft, William

Newspaper or publication: Huddersfield Examiner

Speech given before an English audience detailing the injustices of the system of slavery in the U.S. The speaker stressed the lack of legal representation or recourse available to slaves, emphasizing that the government was not interested in their welfare.

Description of file(s): PDF 6 page, 2,031 word document (text and images)

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