Speaker or author: Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Bill and recounting brief stories of those who escaped to freedom in Canada. He noted that slaveholders were not open to reason or compassion when it came to the question of slavery.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 681 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Bill, and stressing the horrors and cruelties of slavery in the U.S. The speaker emphasized the joy in the freedom he found in Glasgow and all of Great Britain.
Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 1,537 word document (text and images)