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)
Speaker or author: Rock, John S. (John Sweat), 1825-1866
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Brief speech addressing the fears expressed within the country regarding the emancipation of the slaves. The speaker emphasized that the fear of amalgamation is groundless since it presupposes an "uncommon attraction on the part of the blacks" to the white race and this was not the case. He encouraged his audience to have faith and trust the path to freedom that lay before them.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 336 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1887?
Newspaper or publication: Manchester Weekly Times
Impassioned speech delivered before an English audience. The speaker recounted examples of the horrors and moral degradation of slavery. She noted that the economics of cotton ruled the mind and morals of slaveholders. She stressed that slavery had not only denied freedom to millions of human beings, but had created a population of poor white people who could not earn a livable wage due to its existence.
Description of file(s): PDF 9 page, 2,862 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1887?
Newspaper or publication: Warrington Times
Overview of speech delivered before an English audience regarding the abuses suffered by women and mulattoes held in slavery in the U.S.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 524 word document (text and images)
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - October 26, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer discusses caste and prejudice in the U.S. and Hayti. Prejudice in Hayti is mostly based in caste, with those of African descent fighting against mulattoes. In the U.S. prejudice is based in race and nationality and often leveled at the Irish and German immigrants equally with African Americans.
Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Inquirer
The speaker challenged the proposition put forth that mixing the races would result in "weak and feeble offspring" and that the race would eventually die out. Those agreeing with the idea of forbidding interracial marriage were not considering the children of slaves and slaveholders that were born out of wedlock. The speaker said that he believed two-thirds of slaves in the U.S. were of mixed blood.
Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 542 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Proceedings, British Association for the Advancement of Science
The speaker pointed out to the scientific debate taking place that he didn't understand how the author of an essay on amalgamation in the U.S. could say that the races had not mixed. He believed that two-thirds of African Americans were of mixed race.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 263 word document (text and image)