Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: Freeman's Journal (Dublin)
Speech given in Dublin regarding the current condition of slaves and slavery in the U.S. in an effort to rally support for the abolitionist cause in America.
Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 1,246 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: Syracuse Journal
Brief speech denouncing the goals of the American Colonization Society; and recounting a personal experience with prejudice.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 164 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Kelly, Edmund, b. 1818
Newspaper or publication: Freeman's Journal
Anecdotal speech regarding one man's experience within the system of slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 356 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Kelly, Edmund, b. 1818
Newspaper or publication: Freeman's Journal
Anecdotal speech regarding one man's experience with slavery. Although his father was Irish, his mother's race determined his condition as property of a slaveholder.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 745 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Pennington, James W. C.
Newspaper or publication: Gloucester Journal
Synopsis of the speaker's life experience that follows him from his birth into slavery to his successful career in the clergy and his accomplishments in his work for abolition.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 413 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, John, fl. 1854
Newspaper or publication: Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal
Narrative regarding the life of John Brown and his experiences growing up as a slave.
Description of file(s): PDF 7 page, 2,808 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1887?
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Journal of Negro History, Volume xxvii (January, 1942) No. 1, pp. 216-218
A brief speech taken from a longer one delivered in London offering an overview of the beginning of slavery in the U.S.
Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 1,244 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal
Speech describing the speaker's experiences as he and his wife made their escape from slavery. The speaker emphasized the cruelty and misery that slaves were enduring daily.
Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 2,263 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal
Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Law, and describing the history of slavery as a history of legalized abuse and injustice.
Description of file(s): PDF 6 page, 1,989 word document (text and images)