Speaker or author: Langston, C. H. (Charles Henry), b. 1821?
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- State Historical Society of Wisconsin -- Pamphlet Collection
Eloquent speech delivered before a court about to pronounce sentence on the speaker for his actions in working against the Fugitive Slave Law. After his impassioned call for reason, justice, and humanity in the exercising of the Fugitive Slave Law, the speaker was fined $100 and sentenced to 20 days in jail.
Description of file(s): PDF 13 page, 4,108 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Speech offered in response to a speech given by abolitionist William Henry Burleigh regarding the contradiction of the moral injustice, yet financial incentive of continuing slavery. Mr. Remond offered his own views on this idea of legal and moral contradiction.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 804 word document (text and images)
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Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: Printed Copy -- Rhode Island Historical Society -- Newspaper Clipping File
The speaker came forward after the audience's call for Father Henson went unanswered. He said he hoped a defiant attitude toward ending the oppression of slavery would be the end result at the end of this convention.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 251 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: Printed Copy -- Rhode Island Historical Society -- Newspaper Clipping File
The speaker denounced the recent Dred Scott decision and emphasized the crisis this had created in the fight to end slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 199 word document (text and image)
Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Speech delivered denouncing the legal decision made by Judge Taney. The speaker encouraged his audience to adopt the motto, "No Union with Slaveholders." He said he would rather see the union divided than to give up the fight for freedom and the cause of human liberty.
Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 960 word document (text and images)
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Title: Colored American - April 15, 1837
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer apologizes for the crowd of protestors who gathered around and near the trial of fugitive slaves held earlier that week. He admonishes the protestors and askes them to cease such actions. But he also offers his contempt for the men who would hunt and capture those who they call "fugitives."
Description of file(s): one scanned, one columned, newspaper page
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Title: Colored American - April 22, 1837
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer is outraged at reports that the judge presiding over the trial of fugitive slaves expressed his desire to shoot them for "sport" instead of hearing their case.
Description of file(s): one scanned, one columned, newspaper page
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Title: Colored American - July 22, 1837
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer calls for an appeal of the oppressive laws that restrict the African American people of Ohio.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Colored American - June 16, 1838
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer tells his readers about recent decisions made in the Connecticut courts that indicate a less prejudiced attitude towards African Americans.
Description of file(s): one scanned, one columned, newspaper page
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Title: Colored American - May 1, 1841
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer comments on an upcoming meeting to determine what to do to help the Amistad captives while they remain in this country.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Colored American - November 17, 1838
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The editor asks his readers for donations to help pay legal feels incurred by the New York Vigilance Committee in a libel suit. If substantial funds are not raised by December, the printer's property will be confiscated.
Description of file(s): one scanned, one columned, newspaper page
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Title: Colored American - October 20, 1838
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer announces to his readers that the editor and some newspaper staff members are involved in a libel suit. He believes this is based on prejudice and an attempt to stop the newspaper from continuing to publish.
Description of file(s): one scanned, one columned, newspaper page
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Title: Colored American - September 28, 1839
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
Preliminary proceedings to decide jurisdiction of one part of the Amistad case involving the capture and bondage of three children.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
Speaker or author: Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897.
Newspaper or publication: Elevator
Impassioned speech in which the speaker emphasized that along with freedom, African Americans were entitled to all the privileges of citizenship including suffrage, legal, social and political rights. Denying a citizen these rights on the basis of color was illogical, irrational, and uncivilized.
Description of file(s): PDF 10 page, 2,101 word document (text and images)
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Title: Pacific Appeal - April 5, 1862
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
The writer expresses his expectation that the law allowing African Americans to give testimony in trials concerning white citizens will pass the state legislature.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Pacific Appeal - January 30, 1864
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
The editor tells his readers about a letter he received from an African American man describing how he was charged with crimes he didn't commit when returning to his home state after a short trip away. The editor reminds his readers that this newspaper is not a vehicle for abuse, slander or published charges against others.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Pacific Appeal - March 7, 1863
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
The writer tells his readers that the two bills allowing African Americans to testify in court proceedings involving white persons have passed the California Senate. (See editorial 26388 for a correction to this editorial published later.)
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
The writer expresses his views on why the government denies African Americans the "Right of Testimony."
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
The writer lets his readers know that the Negro Testimony Bill (resulting from petitions they had gathered) did not pass the state Senate. He urges them not to give up hope, and assures them the fight for this right will continue.
Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)
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Title: Provincial Freeman - September 29, 1855
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer discusses the ongoing debate over land purported to be owned by the Dawn Institute. This issue was debated recently in a meeting that the writer was unable to attend. The ownership of the property is unresolved. (Portions of this editorial are illegible and other portions are missing)
Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns) (incomplete)
Speaker or author: Morris, Robert, 1823-1882
Newspaper or publication: Printed Copy -- Rhode Island Historical Society -- Newspaper Clipping File
The speaker discussed his opinion of the Dred Scott decision.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 310 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1887?
Newspaper or publication: Derbyshire Courier
Overview of a speech delivered before an English audience regarding the plight of the slave in America, a country founded on freedom. The speaker offered anecdotes from her own life and the lives of slaves to demonstrate the cruelty and inhumanity of slavery. She asked for the support of the English people in the fight for universal emancipation.
Description of file(s): PDF 9 page, 2,329 word document (text and images)
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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - August 27, 1851
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
The writer relates a recent court case regarding a default on the purchase of slaves by a free man of color.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - January 15, 1851
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
The writer reviews the case of a man captured as a fugitive slave in New York. Before the trial was over, the Marshal took it upon himself to defy the court and take the man to the slave owner who claimed the man as his run-away slave.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - June 1, 1851
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
The writer tells his readers about a recent Detroit court case in which fugitive slaves who were about to be captured were helped to escape to Canada.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page