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Speaker or author: Loguen, Jermain Wesley
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Overview of a brief speech in which the speaker called for action to end slavery. He told his audience the action he was taking was to become a "conductor" on the underground railroad.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 195 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Loguen, Jermain Wesley
Newspaper or publication: Frederick Douglass' Paper
Speech offered to the public in response to a letter warning the speaker that the slaveholder from whom he'd escaped was coming to get him. The speaker told his audience that he would stand his ground and not leave as a way of proving his human liberty, his manhood, and as a symbol of freedom for all those who are enslaved.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 764 word document (text and images)