Speaker or author: Lane, Lunsford, b. 1803.
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
Overview of a speech given to request financial assistance for a black church congregation in Boston, Massachusetts. The Society collected the requested funds, but would have turned down the request if the speaker had asked for money to fight slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 662 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Lane, Lunsford, b. 1803.
Newspaper or publication: Western Citizen
Speech given by Lunsford Lane describing how he purchased his family from slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 10 page, 2,551 word document (text and images)
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - December 31, 1859
Speaker or author: Allan A. Lane to H[enry] W[ard] Beecher
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The editor shares a warning received from a reliable source that sailors of African descent are not safe on ships in southern ports. He included the story of a British sailor who was found on a ship docked in Georgia and subsequently sold into slavery.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page