Category: <span>1842</span>

January 7, 1842 Under Refuge for Oppression, with a title, A Northern Apologist for Slavery!. “A recreant New Englander is writing a series of letters for the Puritan in this…

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January 14, 1842 From the Abington Congregational Church, October 20, 1841, comes news of a meeting at which five-sixth of the whole church had signed anti-slavery resolutions, and five-seventh had…

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January 14, 1842 After a long report on the fair, there is a list of sixty-four towns and cities which participated, and note that there may have been others also.

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* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1842 Fugitive Slave Laws Legislatures of North & South Seward, William

January 28, 1842 Two lines tell of Pete, a slave who murdered Mrs. McMahon and daughter, in McMinn County. He was hung.

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January 28, 1842 The Lynn Register comments on the recent seizure and imprisonment of C. T. Torrey, an abolitionist from Mass., while attending a Slaveholders Convention, in Annapolis, MD. The…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1842 Anti-Abolition Torrey, Charles T.

February 18, 1842 This meeting, held in the Representatives’ Hall, began at an early evening hour, and continued until almost eleven.  Speakers included Remond,  Phillips, Frederick Douglass, Abby Kelley, and…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1842 Anti-Slavery Organizations Douglass, Frederick Kelley, Abby Phillips, Wendell Remond, Lenox

February 25, 1842 Notes of a meeting of the Essex County A.S. Society, Feb 8, 1842.  A resolution presented by Garrison, calling for disunion, debated, and in evening session, finally…

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March 4, 1842 Here is the record of a “great meeting” in Plymouth Town Hall, which votes favorably on resolutions in support of Adams, and the right of petitioning.

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March 11, 1842 Signed by Daniel O’Connell and Theobald Mathew,  Here are few phrases, from this call for the Irish people of America to “JOIN  WITH  THE  ABOLITIONISTS EVERYWHERE.” …..…

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March 11, 1842  A brief note from New Orleans telling of two people, one sentenced to hard labor for five years, one for three years, “for aiding a slave to…

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March 11, 1842 Tells of a man killed on the Providence railroad, near the Roxbury toll-gate.  Says he was sitting on the railroad when a car passed over him, “cutting…

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March 18, 1842 Here is an obituary, in which it is said that Forten sent his “love to the abolitionists, especially to William Lloyd Garrison.

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March 18, 1842  The Executive Committee of the Rhode Island State Anti-Slavery Society has voted resolutions calling for the state to remove from its Constitution the word “white”, which restricts…

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April 1, 1842 One sentence:  “DIED — in this city, Primus Hall, aged 89 – a venerable colored revolutionary pensioner.”

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April 1, 1842 Here is a letter from five members of a church in North Abington, telling of a regular prayer meeting of abolitionists associated with that church.  “Nothwithstanding the…

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April 8, 1842 Here is a notice of death of Hall from the Boston Transcript, in which Hall is listed as 84 at death.  “Mr. Hall was well known, particularly…

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April 22, 1842 Reference is made to the proceedings of the Baltimore Repeal Association, included in the Boston Pilot.  The Baltimore group has declared that the Irish Address is “a…

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April 29, 1842 A letter signed by H. C. Wright, dated April 15, from Philadelphia —- the writer claims that the sentiment which he expresses dominates in Pennsylvania.   “It is…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1842 Disunion Wright, Henry

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May 13, 1842 From the Baptist Church of Christ, North Yarmouth, Maine, comes a strong statement that “slavery is a heinous sin”…  “the church will not knowingly admit to its…

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May 20, 1842 This item is titled, “Daring Judicial attempt to excite a Mob, and to suppress Freedom of Speech”, and is introduced as an “Extract from a Charge delivered…

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May 20, 1842 A note saying that “one hundred and twenty Indians arrived at New Orleans on the 15th, from Florida, on their way to the far West.”

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June 3, 1842 An article from the N.Y. Evangelist,  is a strong statement in support of the American Union…..   “THE AMERICAN UNION MUST AND WILL BE PRESERVED, , nay more…

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June 10, 1842 An item from the Washington Globe, warning that the Massachusetts Legislature “are resolved to make black and white the same”….. It worries that because there is an…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1842 Amalgamation Legislatures of North & South Massachusetts Legislature

June 24, 1842 Here is a lengthy excerpt from Channing’s,  The Duty of the Free States,  with a clear call to maintain the Union

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1842 Channing, William Ellery Disunion

July 1, 1842 From the Natchez Free Trader comes the story of two slaves burned alive because of a series of dreadful outrages they have allegedly perpetrated.  The account is…

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July 8, 1842 The Washington correspondent of the N.Y. American, a former Colonization agent, is quoted here at length, telling of his disillusionment and change on mind.  Signed simply, R.M.T.H

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July 15, 1842 Here is an “Interesting Letter from England”, signed only W.H.Ashurst, from Musell Hill, Hornsey, April 30, 1842 The letter makes a number of points: “We are struggling…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1842 Chapman, Maria Weston Mott, Lucretia Non-Resistance Prejudice Working Class Issues

July 22, 1842 Here is a hymn, written by Garrison, A Hymn for the First of August, West India Emancipation:  Here is only the first verse:  “Lo! The bondage of…

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July 22, 1842 A brief note:  “We understand that two or more of the mills at Lowell have been stopped, and that between two and three thousand factory girls are…

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July 29, 1842 From the Liberty Standard, here is a statement against Clay’s candidacy for President,  recently endorsed by the Whig Convention of Maine. Signed by A. Willey, it gives…

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August 26, 1842 From the Nantucket Inquirer, a record of several outbreaks against people assembled in an Anti-Slavery Convention.  These include the use of insulting and abusive language, the throwing…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1842 Anti-Abolition Nantucket Violence vs. Garrison & Others

September’s 2, 1842 From an “Observer”, Canandaigua Lake, August, 1842 .  Very critical review of Kelley’s attacks on the Liberty Party.  “Abby’s course may do much harm to the cause…

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September 9, 1842 Here Garrison responds to the editor of the Zion’s Herald.  Garrison has been criticized for “infidelity” as he maintains that all days are equally sacred.  Garrison strongly…

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September 16, 1842 An item from the Philadelphia Ledger, titled, Can’t it be Corrected? “It is a very great injury to the black population of the city, that so many…

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September 16, 1842 Here is a record of an Essex County Conference, August 18, held in Andover.  “Reports were listened to from societies in Boston, Cambridge, Danvers, Andover, Reading, Haverhill,…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1842 Anti-Slavery Organizations Females

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September 30, 1842 From the Hartford Charter Oak, there is an article which includes a recounting of a discussion between “A Northern Man and a Southern Trader” at the close…

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September 30, 1842 Here is a long report of a discussion at a recent meeting of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.  The issue regards the policy of…

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September 30, 1842 “The dome of the State House of Boston was visited in 1841 by 43,478 persons. During the present year, since March, by 24,002.”

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September 30, 1842 “The cotton crop of Texas is estimated, for the present year, at about eighty thousand bales.”

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October 7, 1842 An item from New Bedford, Sept 26, signed by Henry Hurd, describes an incident of discrimination against Mr. Richard Johnson and daughter, at “the depot of the…

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October 7, 1842 Death of the “distinquished  writer, philanthropist, and divine, in Bennington, Vermont, on Sunday afternoon, after a short illness.”

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October 14, 1842 Here is an item from the Emancipator, titled, Daniel Webster and the ‘Great Compromiser’.  “….Daniel Webster went down to Alexandria and Richmond, and bowed his massive, Herculean…

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