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Title: Ebenezer D. Bassett

Speaker or author: Bassett, Ebenezer D., 1833-1908

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

Overview of a science lecture given on Carbon to students of the Institute for Colored Youth. The speaker is the principal at the institute. (Includes MP3 audio file.)

Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 313 word document (text and images)

Title: Emeline Sullivan

Speaker or author: Sullivan, Emeline

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

Brief overview of a lecture regarding the benefits of "mental improvement." The speaker gives illustrations of lives that have benefited from education.

Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 184 word document (text and image)

Title: James McCune Smith

Speaker or author: Smith, James McCune, 1813-1865

Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Congregational Library -- Boston, Massachusetts -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets

A lecture on the history of the Haytian Revolutions with a "character sketch" of Toussaint L'Ouverture given to benefit the Colored Orphan Asylum. The lecture outlines the class structure in Hayti and the timeline leading up to the revolutions from 1791 through 1803. (Speeches 06086, 06136, 06196, 06220, 06242, 06269, and 06309 are duplicates of this speech.)

Description of file(s): PDF 26 page, 9,292 word document (text and images)

Title: Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs

Speaker or author: Gibbs, Jonathan C. (Jonathan Clarkson), 1831-1874

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

Brief overview of a lecture on Geology given at the Institute for Colored Youth.

Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 279 word document (text and images)

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