Speaker or author: Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
The speaker read the Emancipation Proclamation aloud to a cheering audience and urged African Americans to join the Union army in the Civil War's continued fighting.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 830 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Smith, James McCune, 1813-1865
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Brief speech denouncing the plans and goals of the American Colonization Society.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 328 word document (text and image)
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Speaker or author: Smith, James McCune, 1813-1865
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Overview of speech offered in protest of the Fugitive Slave Bill that was contributing to the kidnapping of nominally free black citizens of New York. Emphasis was placed on the recent experience in this regard of James Hamlet, who escaped after being kidnapped to be sold into slavery. (Speech 10898(a) is a duplicate of this speech.)
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 365 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Raymond, John T., Rev.
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Overview of speech offered in protest of the Fugitive Slave Bill that was contributing to the kidnapping of nominally free black citizens of New York. Emphasis was placed on the recent experience in this regard of James Hamlet, who escaped after being kidnapped to be sold into slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 774 word document (text and images)