Speaker or author: Vashon, George Boyer, 1824-1878
Newspaper or publication: Oberlin Evangelist
Verbose speech on character and quality of life given at the "Monthly Rhetorical Exercises of the College Department" when Vashon was a member of the senior class at Oberlin College.
Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 1,272 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Vashon, George Boyer, 1824-1878
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Foner and Walker, Eds. -- Proceedings of the Black State Conventions 1840-1865, (1979) Vol. 1, pp. 139-166
Brief overview of speech in which the speaker expressed his view that a country that is not administered by a just and impartial government was not secure or permanent.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 377 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Douglas, George
Newspaper or publication: Signal of Liberty
Brief narrative regarding how slaves feel about the help they're receiving from the abolitionists in the north.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 245 word document (text and image)
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Speaker or author: Downing, George T. (George Thomas), 1819-1903
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Brief speech denouncing the African Civilization Project. The speaker believed this was similar to the American Colonization Society project and just one more way of making money using African American labor.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 391 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Downing, George T. (George Thomas), 1819-1903
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. The speaker was responding to a story of the recent experience of James Hamlet, who escaped after being kidnapped to be sold into slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 289 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Downing, George T. (George Thomas), 1819-1903
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Boston Athenaeum -- Pamphlet Collection
The speaker expressed suspicion at the request of the African Civilization Society for help with those in need in Liberia. He believed this was a backhanded way for the colonization society to get funds.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 311 word document (text and image)
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Speaker or author: Downing, George T. (George Thomas), 1819-1903
Newspaper or publication: Pine and Palm
Speech denouncing the colonization efforts of the U.S. with regard to both the American Colonization Society and the African Civilization Society.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 288 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Turley, George W.
Newspaper or publication: Christian Recorder (1852 - 1856)
An account of the author's travels via stage coach through small towns in Colorado.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 866 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Weir, George, Jr.
Newspaper or publication: North Star
Extract from a speech delivered before the Ladies' Literary and Progressive Association of Buffalo, New York, regarding the benefits of education, scientific advancement, and religion in the struggle against slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 16 page, 3,541 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Smith, Lewis, b. ca. 1824
Newspaper or publication: Watchman and Weslayan Advertiser
Brief overview of speech given before an English audience in which the speaker expressed his goal to purchase the release of his four children from slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 160 word document (text and image)