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Speaker or author: Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
Speech denouncing the words and political actions of Charles "Pat" O'Conor when speaking against emancipation of U.S. slaves. The speaker said that he would have assumed the Negro race would have had a friend in Charles "Pat" O'Conor since he was from Ireland. However, O'Conor had cautioned the U.S. government that freed slaves would turn against the white population.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 586 word document (text and images)
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Title: Provincial Freeman - December 29, 1855
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer relates the stories of three mulatoo men named William. Each was raised by a single woman as her own child, and each chose a similar route to freedom.
Description of file(s): two scanned, two columned, newspaper pages
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Title: Provincial Freeman - March 22, 1856
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer describes his meeting of William Parker, a fugitive slave who recently fell under the protection of the British government.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column