Speaker or author: Nickens, Owen B.
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Report from Liberator newspaper describes a speech given during celebration activities on the anniversary of the emancipation of slavery in New York state.
Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 889 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Williams, Peter, 1780?-1840
Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- New York Public Library -- Schomburg Collection
Speech given for the benefit of the "coloured community of Wilberforce" in Upper Canada. Speech addresses efforts of the Colonization Society to relocate free people of color to Africa and Hayti. (Speech 00793 is duplicate of this speech)
Description of file(s): PDF 13 page, 3,488 word document (text and images)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
The speaker addressed the issue of the competence and intellectual abilities of African Americans. He offered a rebuttal on the idea that freed slaves would be unable to take care of themselves. He emphasized a historical perspective on the intellectual ability of the Negro race to not only survive but to prosper independent of European influence.
Description of file(s): PDF 14 page, 3,770 word document (text and images)