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Title: Provincial Freeman - April 5, 1856
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer relates different versions of the fate of Margaret Garner, her baby, and those aboard the steamship Henry Lewis.
Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)
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Title: Provincial Freeman - March 22, 1856
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer tells his readers of a recent shipwreck that took the life of Margaret Garner, the fugitive slave who killed her child rather than see it sold into slavery, as she was being returned to her owner.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
Speaker or author: Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1887?
Newspaper or publication: Warrington Times
Overview of a speech given before an audience in England relating examples of the horrors of slavery. The speaker noted especially the plight of women and children who were held in slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 9 page, 2,698 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1887?
Newspaper or publication: Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser
Speech delivered before an English audience describing the history and injustices of slavery in the U. S.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 790 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)