Speaker or author: Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
Speech given during the annual meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society attended mostly by members of the Society of Friends. The speaker describes the progress and successes of the abolition movement throughout the world.
Description of file(s): PDF 11 page, 4,506 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
Brief speech encouraging "free-labor produce" in Britain. The speaker explained that the slave-trade would be negatively impacted if Britain stopped purchasing slave-produced products from the U.S. He encouraged Britain to buy only "free-labor" products in order to help abolish slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 1,135 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
Speech delivered in London before the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (attended by the Duke of Sussex and other dignitaries), regarding the plight of the slave in the United States.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 904 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
Speech against the goals and ideals of the American Colonization Society. The speaker stressed that this society works against and not for the free people of color. He also addressed a secret resolution passed in Virginia in 1800 and again in 1816 that attempted to establish a colony in Louisiana for free people of color in order to remove them from Virginia.
Description of file(s): PDF 7 page, 2,703 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Law, and focusing on the efforts of the Church in the continuation of the system of slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 882 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
Speech before a British audience condemning slavery in the U.S. The speaker pointed out the irony of the American stance on freedom when it continued to enslave millions of people. He also praised the work of British abolitionists.
Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 1,445 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
Brief speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Bill. The speaker also encouraged his audience to buy "free-labor" goods instead of those produced by slave labor.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 436 word document (image and text)
Speaker or author: Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882.
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
Speech calling for an end to slavery and asking that America join this fight for the emancipation of all slaves. He says: "The children of Africa, scattered as they were all over the world, unnationed, appealed to America for redress -- that America whose sails whiten every sea, and whose diplomatic parchment is lying in every court..."
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 312 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Pennington, James W. C.
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
The speaker stressed that the people of color in the U.S. will never be reconciled to slavery, although they do express a love of this country.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 208 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Pennington, James W. C.
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
Speech regarding the colonization of Africa in terms of emigration, and the continued injustices of American slavery. The speaker offered praise for the work of American abolitionists in their efforts to correct state constitutions that included wording that implied the superiority of the white population in America.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 1,222 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Pennington, James W. C.
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
Speech given during a celebration of the August 1st anniversary of the emancipation of the British West Indies stressing the progress of the anti-slavery movements and abolition in the U. S.
Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 2,020 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Pennington, James W. C.
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
Speech given in protest of the British idea for people to immigrate from Africa to the West Indies to work in that country. The speaker argued that this was just another form of slavery under the guise of immigration. (Speech 06979 is a duplicate of this speech.)
Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 1,594 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Henson, Josiah
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
Speech praising the education offered to those of African descent in England, emphasizing the work of the Sunday School Union there.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 997 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Campbell, Robert
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
The speaker suggested that the best way to end slavery was to cultivate cotton in Africa. He believed that if European countries could purchase cotton from Africa and refuse to buy from slaveholding countries. This would eliminate the main reason for slavery in the U.S.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 314 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Ward, Samuel Ringgold, b. 1817
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
Brief speech questioning the ideas of those opposed to the anti-slavery movements, emphasizing that they had not offered a forum for debate about their opposing views.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 384 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Ward, Samuel Ringgold, b. 1817
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
The speaker addressed a meeting called to form a local anti-slavery society in Essex, England. He stressed that one way to end slavery was to refuse to purchase slave-labor produced goods. (Speech 15734 is a duplicate of this speech.)
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 107 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1887?
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
The speaker stressed the plight of women and children subjected to slavery in the southern states. She spoke before an English audience in London and pleaded for their assistance in the battle for emancipation in the U.S.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 761 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Gloucester, Stephen H.
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
Speech given in response to a resolution put forth for the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society to work peacefully towards the abolition of slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 635 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Day, William Howard, d. 1900
Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Reporter
Brief overview of speech in which the speaker addressed the issue of fugitive slaves who had escaped to England. He urged these fugitives to be careful to follow British law and to be on guard for kidnappers.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 163 word document (text and image)