Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
The speaker noted that the problem with Rhode Island was the religious dogma evident there that criticized the anti-slavery convention for holding its meetings on Sunday, but lacked the goodness in its ideals to support justice and freedom for humanity.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 199 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Overview of speech given upon the speaker's return to the U.S. from five years spent in England as a fugitive from slavery. Although the speaker was saddened by the continued efforts to enforce slavery in the U.S., he felt hopeful that complete abolition of slavery would soon be realized. (Includes MP3 audio file.) (Speech 15831 is a duplicate of this speech.)
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 216 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: North Star
Brief speech encouraging the backing of the Irish people in the abolition of slavery in the U.S. The speaker compared the liberation of slaves to the liberation of the Irish Catholic people by Daniel O'Connell.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 657 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Speech describing the speaker's flight from slavery and the abolitionists who helped him along the way. (Includes MP3 audio file.)
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 471 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Inquirer
Brief speech denouncing the effects of the Fugitive Slave Bill. (Includes MP3 audio file.)
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 104 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Brief speech in which the speaker expressed his appreciation for being able to speak freely at the convention. The speaker emphasized his belief that slaves should be able to obtain their freedom even if it took a revolution to do so.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 205 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Bill. The speaker, however, did see that the negative response stirred up by this legislation would result in a renewed strength and resolve among people of all races for the abolition of slavery. (Includes MP3 audio file.)
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 475 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
The speaker asked for all present to agree that the government had become a conspiracy against freedom. He read an excerpt from a southern newspaper demonstrating the fear of emancipated slaves that the southern states held, and that they used to continue slavery there. He expressed that recent government legislation was compelling those who were fighting for emancipation to take a more radical approach.
Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 1,438 word document (text and images)
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Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Western Times
Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Law and stressing its cruel uses.
Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 1,655 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Bill, and expressing the speaker's belief regarding the continuation of the institution of slavery. The speaker emphasized the role the Church plays in keeping slavery in place and the unspoken approval of racial prejudice that this offered society.
Description of file(s): PDF 7 page, 1,831 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Speech addressing the issue of emancipation for the slaves and the struggle within the government regarding how to handle this issue.
Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 1,202 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Brief speech in which the speaker praised the black soldiers of the Union Army.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 321 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Speech regarding the question of expatriation and what to do with freed slaves once the Civil War was over. The speaker believed that slavery would end with the end of the war, but he could see the potential problems in a future society including newly freed slaves.
Description of file(s): PDF 6 page, 1,757 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Overview of a speech given in London regarding the continuation of slavery in the U.S. The speaker said that slavery would never end as long as the Church continued to condone it.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 279 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Brief speech in which the speaker compares the slaveholder to the Devil. The speaker says that religion aids slavery. (Includes MP3 audio file.)
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 149 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Bibliotheque Nationale -- Paris, France
Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Bill stressing the cruelties of its use. The speaker emphasized that the cruelty of slavery was both physical and emotional as human bodies and human families were broken apart in similar fashion. (Includes MP3 audio file.)
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 732 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: North Star
Brief speech acknowledging the emancipation of the French people from tyranny and slavery during the revolutions of 1848. (Includes MP3 audio file.)
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 222 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: NonConformist
Overview of a lengthy speech given before an audience of between 2,000 and 3,000 people in Worcester, England, on the cruelties and horrors of slavery in the U.S., a country that was founded on freedom. (Speech 10137 is a duplicate of this speech.) (Includes MP3 audio file.)
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 674 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Manchester Examiner and Times
Speech delivered before a British audience denouncing the Fugitive Slave Law, and emphasizing the irony of a country founded on freedom continuing to depend on and encourage slave labor.
Description of file(s): PDF 10 page, 3,290 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Bill emphasizing the penalities placed on those who help fugitive slaves and, the cruelties the bill allows to be placed on those who are captured using it.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 656 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Dartmouth College -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets
Address given before the Female Anti-Slavery Society in which the speaker answered the question "what is slavery?" with emphasis placed on how slavery affects the character of the American people.
Description of file(s): PDF 24 page, 7,249 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- John Rylands Library -- Manchester, England -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets
Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Bill in the U.S., and praising the efforts of the British people in the abolition of slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 789 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
The speaker said that the system of slavery degrades the slaveholder as well as the slave. He noted several examples of the injustices of slavery. (Includes MP3 audio file.)
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 295 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Speech regarding the negative image the American slaveholders and pro-slavery representatives offer people in Europe who judge all Americans by those they meet. The speaker (whose father was a slaveholder and his mother a slave) stressed the irony of a country founded on freedom that still maintained the institution of slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 6 page, 1,429 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Pine and Palm
Speech denouncing the idea of immigation to Hayti for freed African Americans. The speaker emphasized that America is home to former slaves and that they owe it to those who continue in slavery to stay in the U.S. He believed that slavery was nearing its end and that America would be a country that welcomed all races in the future.
Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 978 word document (text and images)