Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Inquirer
Narrative regarding the speaker's experiences as a slave and his subsequent escape from slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 751 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Speech given in response to a paper read by Dr. James Hunt regarding the mental and physical differences between the Negro and Caucasian races. Dr. Hunt's paper emphasized the superiority of the Caucasian race. The speaker offered a fable: a man and a lion viewed a picture of a lion being held down violently by a man. The man pointed out that this proved the man's superiority. The lion then pointed out that the man had painted the picture. The speaker included a brief overview of his own experience in slavery. (Speech 26183 is a duplicate of this speech.)
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 829 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- John Rylands Library -- Manchester, England -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets
Speech recounting the speakers experience with slavery and his remarkable escape. The speaker emphasized the accepting way the people in England treat fugitive slaves and compared that with how they are treated in the U.S.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 1,557 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Northern Warder [Dundee]
Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Bill, and stressing the horrors and cruelties of slavery in the U.S.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 843 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal
Speech describing the speaker's experiences as he and his wife made their escape from slavery. The speaker emphasized the cruelty and misery that slaves were enduring daily.
Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 2,263 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Overview of anecdotal speech regarding one man's escape from slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 470 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Inquirer
The speaker challenged the proposition put forth that mixing the races would result in "weak and feeble offspring" and that the race would eventually die out. Those agreeing with the idea of forbidding interracial marriage were not considering the children of slaves and slaveholders that were born out of wedlock. The speaker said that he believed two-thirds of slaves in the U.S. were of mixed blood.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 542 word document (text and images)
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Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Mitchell Library -- Glasgow, Scotland
Brief speech in which the speaker praised the abolition work of William Lloyd Garrison.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 169 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Bibliotheque Nationale -- Paris, France
Speech describing the speaker and his wife's escape from slavery. The horrors and injustices of slavery are emphasized.
Description of file(s): PDF 7 page, 2,779 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Frederick Douglass' Paper
Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Law and emphasizing its injustices. The speaker recounted his experiences with this law.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 662 word document (text and images)
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Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Western Times
Speech relating the speaker's experiences as a slave and his subsequent escape. The speaker also denounced the recently passed Fugitive Slave Law.
Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 1,219 word document (text and images)
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)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: British Friend
Brief overview of speech describing the life of the average slave.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 204 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Patriot
Overview of speech regarding the speaker's views of what was influencing the continued fighting in the Civil War. He also presented details to his audience about his efforts to get the King of Dahomey (in Africa) to abandon the slave trade.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 297 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Halifax Courier
Speech regarding the current political opinion on the question of continuing slavery in the U.S. by legalizing it in new states. The speaker also related his own experience with slavery and his subsequent escape.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 962 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Anecdotal speech describing the speaker's life and his escape from slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 238 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Leeds Mercury
Anecdotal speech relating the hardships of the speaker's escape from slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 908 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Proceedings, British Association for the Advancement of Science
The speaker pointed out to the scientific debate taking place that he didn't understand how the author of an essay on amalgamation in the U.S. could say that the races had not mixed. He believed that two-thirds of African Americans were of mixed race.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 263 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Brief speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Bill. (Includes MP3 audio file)
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 132 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Bill, and stressing the horrors and cruelties of slavery in the U.S. The speaker related the story of his escape from slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 751 word document (text and images)