Category: <span>West India Emancipation</span>

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…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1842 West India Emancipation

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1844 Emerson, Ralph Waldo West India Emancipation

June 5, 1846   A record of the actions of the New England Anti-Slavery Convention, May 26, held at Faneuil Hall, includes a resolution presented by Garrison, and adopted by the…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1846 West India Emancipation

July 31, 1846 An article reminding people of the struggle for Abolition in England, and the triumph in the West Indies ….It calls for people “to assemble , on the…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1846 West India Emancipation

August 5, 1859 At the gathering celebrating West India Emancipation, Garrison, in his speech comments on a recent visit to Plymouth.  “… on going down to the world-famous Rock, I…

1859 Fugitive Slave Laws West India Emancipation