University Archives

Title: Colored American - December 25, 1841

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)

The writer shares the story of a young girl's flight from slavery to freedom.

Description of file(s): Three scanned newspaper pages (five columns)

Speaker or author: Bibb, Henry, b. 1815

Newspaper or publication: Signal of Liberty

Brief speech made during a court hearing in which the speaker gave a brief overview of his life as a slave and an account of his escape to freedom. (Includes MP3 audio file)

Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 231 word document (text and image)

Speaker or author: Smith, J. B. (John B.), Rev., fl. 1852-1863

Newspaper or publication: Liberator

Short anecdotal speech regarding one man's experience with slavery.

Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 149 word document (text and image)

Speaker or author: Anderson, John, b. 1831?

Newspaper or publication: Toronto Globe

Brief anecdotal speech regarding one man's escape from slavery. (Speech 24147 is a duplicate of this speech.) (Includes MP3 audio file.)

Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 367 word document (text and images)

Speaker or author: Pembroke, Stephen

Newspaper or publication: Pennsylvania Freeman

Anecdotal speech regarding one man's experience with slavery and subsequent escape. (Stephen Pembroke is the brother of Rev. J. W. C. Pennington, a well-known black abolitionist and speaker.)

Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 675 word document (text and images)

Speaker or author: Pembroke, Stephen

Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle

Anecdotal speech given regarding the speaker's experience with slavery and subsequent escape.

Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 702 word document (text and images)

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - February 11, 1860

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)

The writer shares the story of a prisoner who was involved in a plot to murder a guard in an attempt to escape prison.

Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page

Speaker or author: Craft, William

Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard

Overview of anecdotal speech regarding one man's escape from slavery.

Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 470 word document (text and images)

Speaker or author: Craft, William

Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Bibliotheque Nationale -- Paris, France

Speech describing the speaker and his wife's escape from slavery. The horrors and injustices of slavery are emphasized.

Description of file(s): PDF 7 page, 2,779 word document (text and images)

Speaker or author: Craft, William

Newspaper or publication: Leeds Mercury

Anecdotal speech relating the hardships of the speaker's escape from slavery.

Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 908 word document (text and images)

Speaker or author: Johnson, William P., fl. 1839

Newspaper or publication: Non Conformist

Brief excerpt of speech detailing the help one abolitionist from New York had offered escaping slaves in their journey to Canada.

Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 314 word document (text and image)