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: Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- British Library -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets
Lengthy speech given as the annual oration on Independence Day in Liberia, Monrovia. The speaker emphasized the advances in Monrovia's economy, industry, resources and education of its people made since its humble beginnings.
Description of file(s): PDF 46 page, 12,594 word document (text and images)
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: Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Anecdotal speech regarding one man's experience with slavery and subsequent escape.
Description of file(s): PDF 10 page, 2,925 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Stanley, Benjamin, fl. 1850
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 suggested armed resistance to those who would attempt to rob them of their freedom.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 458 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Ray, Charles B. (Charles Bennett), 1807-1886
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. Emphasis is placed on the recent experience of James Hamlet, who escaped after being kidnapped to be sold into slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 225 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Ray, Charles B. (Charles Bennett), 1807-1886
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Speech against the idea and goals of the American Colonization Society.
Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 1,464 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Langston, C. H. (Charles Henry), b. 1821?
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Harvard University -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets
Brief eulogy given for Lorenzo Dow Taylor who had been an integral part of the convention held in Ohio since it began.
Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 1,437 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Langston, C. H. (Charles Henry), b. 1821?
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Harvard University -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets
Brief speech expressing the speaker's agreement that the U. S. government is based on a pro-slavery ideal.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 396 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Reason, Charles Lewis, 1818-1893
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Speech denouncing the plans and goals of the American Colonization Society. The speaker stressed that this idea is just a scheme to remove African Americans from the U.S.
Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 1,221 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Reason, Charles Lewis, 1818-1893
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Speech given against the goals of the American Colonization Society and the speaker's belief that colonization of Africa simply offered another type of enslavement to African Americans.
Description of file(s): PDF 11 page, 3,314 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Speech stressing the idea that the Constitution is "pro-slavery" and that the Liberty Party has formed to protest this. The speaker notes that "A protest amounts to nothing, so long as he continues in fellowship with those who persist in evil-doing." This statement was in response to a suggestion that the Liberty Party members "unite" with the slaveholders in governmental action.
Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 1,275 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Speech following a resolution that the speaker offered emphasizing the lack of funding available to carry out the goals of the American Colonization Society. The speaker expressed his belief that the idea to colonize Africa with the "nominally free" African Americans was a scheme to "dupe" the American people out of large sums of money.
Description of file(s): PDF 8 page, 2,581 word document (text and images)
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: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Boston Public Library -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets
Brief speech supporting a resolution that denounced slaveholding. He emphasized that education was the key to ending the contradiction evident in a country established in freedom but depending for its survival on slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 491 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Passionate speech given at the anti-slavery convention held in Albany, N.Y. regarding the condition of the slave in the U.S. Emphasis placed on the influence of the Church and government legislation in the continuation of the institution of slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 873 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
In response to a resolution regarding revolution to gain freedom for the slaves, the speaker said he did not advocate violence but insisted that freedom was the inherent right of all men, regardless of race.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 301 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Society
Speech against the plans of the American Colonization Society. The speaker expressed his belief that colonization was inspired by the institution of American slavery as a way of solving the issue of slavery without allowing freed slaves to become members of American society.
Description of file(s): PDF 11 page, 3,577 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Speech given during an American Anti-Slavery Society convention in response to the assertion that there were three parties working towards emancipation: the Liberty Party, the Liberty League, and the American Anti-Slavery Society. Each party has its own mission and goals.
Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 1,193 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: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
The speaker said that prejudice in New York was just as prevelant as it always had been, that no number of resolutions created in any convention could change this. The speaker called for true reform of the current political system in place in free states with regard to prejudice based on color.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 526 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
The speaker chastised a white member of the convention who was unwilling to donate money but was willing to occupy time. The speaker noted that while many believed in the anti-slavery notion of the U.S. Constitution, there were few who would actually work towards liberating even one slave.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 337 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
The speaker noted that while slavery had ended, as long as equality did not exist between the races, the work of the Anti-Slavery movement would continue. He believed that now was not the time to abandon work for civil rights and social acceptance of the newly freed slaves.
Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 955 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
The speaker defended the slaveholder against accusations that the slaveholders had created prejudice in the northern states against people of color. The speaker placed the blame instead on the conflict and existing tension between the north and the south.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 331 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Brief speech delivered at the Cazenovia Anti-Slavery Convention stressing the political and moral aspects of the Liberty party and the Anti-Slavery Society.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 205 word document (text and image)