Two black women, on board a ship, signal distress from cabin window. Some men of color, seeing this, get a writ of habeas corpus, and the women are freed from…
Category: <span>1837</span>
In the Juvenile Dept, a Talk to the Children –No 11 ARE LITTLE CHILDREN SOLD? Here is half a column of instances of children being sold into slavery
Under the Ladies’ Department Letter from Female Antislavery Society of Concord, N.H., from Nov., 1835, addressed to Angelina Grimke, and in response to Grimke’s letter published by Garrison. Letter expresses…
“Resolved: That slavery, as it exists with us, we deny to be an evil, and that we regard those who are now making war upon it, in any shape or…
From “The Advocate of Moral Reform”, a delightful story of women who have refused the “attention” of men of this character.
Notice to “Friend Garrison” , from Charles Fitch, tells of abolition meeting which was disturbed by an ” irregular assembly of personages who seemed evidently to have congregated for a…
Under a heading, Children of Boston, March 25, 1837, note addressed to Garrison, and signed by H.C. Wright, Children’s Agent, tells of a meeting of the Juvenile Anti-Slavery Society, at…
There had evidently been something of a “riot” on March 2, when a lecture to an audience of women was disturbed by a “vile rabble”. Here appears an account of…
Apparently from the New Orleans True American, saying that “Public opinion in the south, would now, we are sure, justify an immediate resort to force by the southern delegation —EVEN…
Items from a lady who has resided in North Carolina for some time, tells accounts of how slaves celebrate Christmas. One is a story of witnessing a slave celebration, which…
Mary Parker, President and Maria Weston Chapman, Cor. Sec. write to Female Anti-Slavery Societies throughout New England. The letter commends Sarah and Angelina Grimke for their continued work against slavery,…
Ezra Stiles Ely writes of a slave he owns and who serves him willingly, and then goes on to excoriate abolitionists from the north. While some southerners show too much…
Here Goodell argues against the common assumption that all knowledge has come from descendants of Europeans: “To whom did the Greeks and the Romans look for instruction in letters and…
Under the Refuge of Oppression column there is a communication from The General Association of Massachusetts to churches under their care: The lengthy letter cautions against lectures which ” threaten…
Under the Refuge of Oppression column there is a paragraph from C. F. Daniels, editor of the New York Gazette. It is introduced with this comment, .. ‘How complacent –…
Here is An Appeal in a letter from “A Garrison Abolitionist”, Newburyport, August 10, 1837: ” I have been highly amused to see the effect of the Clerical Appeal, on…
Here is an item from the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts Antislavery Society, “To the Public”, signed by Francis Jackson, President, Sept 5, 1837. At a meeting of the…
John Gulliver writes on Oct 10 to Garrison, complaining that in a previous paper Garrison had done him an “injustice in your strictures on my remarks at the Worcester Convention….” …
Gulliver’s remarks are printed here, and the gist of his complaint is that one fault of the Liberator is that it is “cruel and unrelenting in its spirit”. He complains…
A committee composed of James Forten, Jr., Jacob C. White, and James McCrummill, writing for these Colored Citizens sends to the Liberator a copy of resolutions, adopted Oct 23, by…
This meeting held in Greenville, R.I., October 10 includes four resolutions, gives strong support to the American Anti-Slavery Society, and to immediate emancipation. Prejudice in the Church From the New…
Here is an appeal to Abolitionists, signed simply, FORBES, saying that at a recent gathering of adults for a new adult school on Belknap Street, there were more than eighty…
An account of the murder, is accompanied by a letter from John M. Krum, Mayor of Alton, describing the incident, and includes many comments from widely scattered sources, lamenting the…
From Samuel H. Peckham, Haverhill, Mass, Sept 7: “It is painful to say these things of one whose general doctrines upon slavery I believe to be correct; but the good…
Notice of appearance in a Kentucky court of a woman in slavery, who alleged she was white. It was claimed that she had been in slavery from childhood until about…
March 18, 1837 Meeting in Susquehanna township, elects men as trustees of the school, and authorizes them to allow speakers of various denominations to speak in the school, “but in…