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Title: Alexander Crummell

Speaker or author: Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898

Newspaper or publication: African Repository

The speaker encouraged immigration to Liberia for former slaves. He emphasized the future potential awaiting free African Americans in Africa that would not only benefit the country, but benefit the race.

Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 276 word document (text and image)

Title: Alexander Crummell

Speaker or author: Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898

Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- British Library -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets

Lengthy speech given as the annual oration on Independence Day in Liberia, Monrovia. The speaker emphasized the advances in Monrovia's economy, industry, resources and education of its people made since its humble beginnings.

Description of file(s): PDF 46 page, 12,594 word document (text and images)

Title: Alexander Crummell

Speaker or author: Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898

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

Lengthy speech describing the current situation in the new colony of Monrovia in Liberia, Africa. The speaker emphasized the positive aspects of an abundance of natural resources, a freedom based society and a just government available there. (speech 23971 is a duplicate of this speech)

Description of file(s): PDF 16 page, 4,524 word document (text and images)

Subtitle: What Are We Doing?

Title: Colored American - July, 1838

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)

The writer is alarmed by the fall in attendance rates of African American children in public schools. He places blame with parents and the Church for not encouraging stricter attendance. He emphasizes the importance of education for African American children.

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

Subtitle: Things which encourage us.

Title: Colored American - September 16, 1837

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)

The writer stresses the benefits of education. While it is difficult for African Americans to obtain a quality education through the usual means, entering the ministry offers a way that they may not have had otherwise.

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

Title: George Thomas Downing

Speaker or author: Downing, George T. (George Thomas), 1819-1903

Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Boston Athenaeum -- Pamphlet Collection

The speaker expressed suspicion at the request of the African Civilization Society for help with those in need in Liberia. He believed this was a backhanded way for the colonization society to get funds.

Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 311 word document (text and image)

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)

Title: Henry Highland Garnet

Speaker or author: Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882

Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)

The speaker supported the goals and motivations of the African Civilization Society. He stressed that the motivation behind the funding of immigration to Africa is to confirm friendly relations with the native people, to purchase land for immigrants, to build schools and churches, to promote lawful commerce, and to encourage the spread of Christianity.

Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 1,066 word document (text and images)

Title: J. W. C. Pennington

Speaker or author: Pennington, James W. C.

Newspaper or publication: Christian Freeman

Speech given on the injustices and prejudices against people of color in the Christian churches with emphasis placed on how this treatment is not in accordance with Christian teaching.

Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 967 word document (text and images)

Title: John N. Mars

Speaker or author: Mars, J. N. (John N.), 1804-1884

Newspaper or publication: Liberator

Brief speech in which the speaker expressed an optimistic future for his children. He encouraged moral as well as educational advancement, and believed opportunity for these things was available in the western U.S.

Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 181 word document (text and image)

Title: John Sweat Rock

Speaker or author: Rock, John S. (John Sweat), 1825-1866

Newspaper or publication: Liberator

Speech delivered during a celebration of the August 1st anniversary of the emancipation of the British West Indies. The speaker noted that it was only a matter of time before the U.S. would also abolish slavery. He stressed the challenges of prejudice, lack of education and unemployment that lay ahead for African Americans when slavery is abolished in the U. S.

Description of file(s): PDF 11 page, 3,267 word document (text and images)

Subtitle: Our Position.

Title: Palladium of Liberty - June 12, 1844

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Palladium of Liberty (1843 - 1844)

The writer acknowledges the ongoing debate among African American newspaper editors regarding the issue of "common schools."

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: School Tax.

Title: Palladium of Liberty - June 12, 1844

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Palladium of Liberty (1843 - 1844)

The writer comments on a state law that provides for the education of white children only.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: Negrophobia in St. Catharines.

Title: Provincial Freeman - June 3, 1854

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The writer tells his readers that the people of African descent living in St. Catharines are taking action against the local school board for excluding their children. (A portion of this column is illegible.)

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: Anti-Slavery Meetings in Canada.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - April 9, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer combines a mention of recent church meetings with a brief overview of the presence of schools in the Chatham area.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: African Colonization.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - December 17, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer comments on an article published in another newspaper about the feared fate of slaves if they are emancipated.

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

Subtitle: Colored People of Ohio.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - May 20, 1852

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer points out that the statistical information on African Americans living in Ohio directly contradicts the beliefs espoused by Colonizationists that African Americans are unable to care for themselves.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: The "Lie Statistical."

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - February 2, 1861

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)

The writer points to the inconsistencies in census taking of the African American and mulatto population in New York. He attributes this to poor record keeping, migration to other states and cities, and the fear inspired by the Fugitive Slave Law. From the writer's own experience he assures his readers that the population of African Americans in New York is much larger than reported in the 1860 census. He also notes that the number of interracial marriages is far greater than the number recorded in the census, estimating it to be closer to 200.

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

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