Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
Brief speech in which the speaker noted the low attendance of the meeting. The speaker said he hoped this would not dampen the determination of the committee to work towards breaking the hold the institution of slavery held on the country.
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Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
The speaker's topic was "Prejudice against Color." He emphasized that he had not experienced prejudice during his travels in Europe, but had encountered it only in the U.S. He believed prejudice to be "unnatural" and that a human being should be recognized for his character and moral worth instead of the color of his skin.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 334 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Douglass, H. Ford
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
In this election year, the speaker encouraged continued vigilance in the fight for abolition of slavery. The speaker stressed where each party and each presidential candidate stood on the issue of slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 12 page, 3,422 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Douglass, H. Ford
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
The speaker offered his thoughts on prejudice, saying, "When we are free, men will find it to be a fact that there is no prejudice against color. It is the condition, not the color. My color serves as a badge, indicating that I belong to a race which in this land has been doomed to degredation. And just so long as we consent to occupy a subordinate condition, and submit without murmuring to our degradation, there is no prejudice against us. So long as the black man is willing to be a slave in this country, all is well enough, but whenever he attempts to take the position of a freeman, it is then the white man seems to hate him." The speaker stressed that prejudice is about slavery, not about skin color.
Description of file(s): PDF 10 page, 2,626 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Douglass, H. Ford
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
Expressive and dramatic speech regarding the continuation of American slavery long after the British had emancipated the West Indies. The speaker emphasized the historical movements of humanity towards freedom and liberty that he believed would always triumph.
Description of file(s): PDF 12 page, 2,857 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Smith, James McCune, 1813-1865
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
Speech encouraging the National Council of the Colored People to continue work on the promises they established in their previous meeting. These promises included the elevation of the race through education, political advances, and civil rights in every state.
Description of file(s): PDF 6 page, 1,520 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Gaines, John J.
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
Speech describing the effects of prejudice in the U.S. on living arrangements and education.
Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 872 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897.
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
The speaker stressed that where there is one person legally enslaved in the U.S., there is no liberty for anyone. Slavery makes slaves of us all. When a government encourages slavery, it evokes a need to control the slaves. This requires laws which limit freedom for everyone. The speaker offered examples to substantiate his ideas.
Description of file(s): PDF 12 page, 3,349 word document (text and images)
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Speaker or author: Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897.
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
Brief speech discounting the Democratic party's pro-slavery stance and the laws that had resulted from its influence.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 491 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897.
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
Speech regarding the inhumanity of slavery, emphasizing the government backing the institution of slavery receives that keeps it strongly in place.
Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 973 word document (text and images)
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: Selby, Nicholas, fl. 1847
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
Brief sermon regarding the religious efforts being made to help the slaves in their fight for freedom.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 343 word document (text and images)
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Speaker or author: Clark, Peter H.
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
The speaker discussed the upcoming presidential election and those involved in the political campaign. John Freemont (Republican) would run against Abraham Lincoln, and while the Republican party expressed anti-slavery sentiments, they were afraid to act aggressively to upset the status quo.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 191 word document (text and image)
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Speaker or author: Clark, Peter H.
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
Overview of speech expressing the speaker's view that while the Republican party was an "Anti-Slavery Party," its stance on abolishing slavery was more motivated by dollars than by philanthropy and good will. This, the speaker believed, was sparked by the battle over whether to bring Kansas into the Union as a free or slaveholding state.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 649 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Clark, Peter H.
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
Brief speech given as the speaker addressed the school board committee in Cincinnati regarding his dismissal on charges of atheism.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 220 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Truth, Sojourner, d. 1883
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
Speech expressing the speaker's opinion on rights for women. (Includes mp3 audio file.)
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 434 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Pembroke, Stephen
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
Anecdotal speech given regarding the speaker's experience with slavery and subsequent escape.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 702 word document (text and images)
Title: Thomas Pointer
Speaker or author: Pointer, Thomas
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
Impassioned speech delivered to the citizens of Ohio asking them to stand up and denounce a law that required the return of fugitive slaves who had entered their state. The speaker asked them to go against an inhumane law for humanity's sake.
Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 1,013 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Watkins, William J.
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
The speaker emphasized that he was not in favor of dissolving the union. He was in favor of ending slavery at all costs, however, including revolution.
Description of file(s): PDF 6 page, 1,575 word document (text and images)
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Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
The speaker addressed the issues of slave trading and "slave raising," and stressed that the acceptance of these had been passed down from generation to generation. As a mulatto, he believed he offered a type of bridge between races. He related a story of the kindness shown to him in Massachusetts that he hadn't known before, but stressed that this bit of kindness had not stopped him from working to end slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 878 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)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
The speaker emphasized the prejudice that had come about as a result of slavery. He noted that the prejudice of the times was based on race, not color, and this related directly to slavery, not appearance.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 353 word document (text and images)
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Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle
Speech regarding the influence of religion and the Church in the continuation of slavery. The speaker noted that "The teaching of religion has always favored slavery," and he noted two theologians who had publicly taught that "...God ordained the institution (of slavery)."
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 859 word document (text and images)