Under Refuge of Oppression there is an article from the Boston Recorder, addressed to the Rev. Samuel Osgood, D.D., from Ralph Emerson. Later in the same issue there is an…
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There is a note that “clerical and sectarian” haters of the paper are circulating rumors of its pending failure, including statements that it lost 200 subscribers on January 1st. The response…
A long accounting “To the People of Massachusetts”, from Cushing, telling of the gag-order regarding the anti-slavery petitions in Congress, dated Dec 22,1838, from Washington.
This Dec 10, 1838 letter is addressed to Garrison, signed simply “A Universalist Abolitionist”. The tone is a sarcastic question, wondering if there is a Universalist periodical which consistently upholds…
Under Refuge of Oppression, there is “from the Hampshire Republican” , no state designated, an article with reference to seven hundred and thirty-five females in Lynn, have petitioned the Legislature…
A letter to Garrison, comes from I. Boutwell, of the Theological Seminary, Andover, dated Dec. 31, 1838. It tells of an African Sabbath School, started in 1832, by a Miss…
Under Refuge of Oppression , and labeled, Polite Letters from the South, one letter, from Somerton, VA, tells the Editor: “You can remain in Boston, and preach your doctrines, but…
Here is an ad for the new paper, published in the city by George Russell, for an Association of Abolitionists. It is expected that Elizur Wright, Jr. Esq, now one…
Notice that a Baltimore paper contains notice that a colored man named John Thomas, who says he is free, and who was born and brought up in Boston, has been…
Under Refuge of Oppression, there is a copy of a Petition presented to the Massachusetts General Court, in which a large number of men from Lynn, mock the recent attempt…
The minutes and resolutions from a meeting chaired by Hall, are in support of the Samaritan Asylum for indigent colored orphans. The meeting was in the Belknap Street School room. …
This is the report of a Special Joint Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, urging that the subject of the slave trade is deserving of immediate attention of the national government.
A long letter from Otis, in which he responds to a report on actions in the Rhode Island Legislature which have been called to his attention. The reference is to…
A notice from the Zion’s Watchman appears here, extracted from a letter dated Oct 21, 1838, from Paris. The letter is from the correspondent of the New York American, no…
From the Christian Reflector, an article, A Penitent Slaveholder. It is signed only, “A Friend of Freedom, O.S.C.” The writer says that his/her father was a slaveholder, and recounts some…
Possibly, or probably, from Prudence Crandall, signed “P. Crandall”. An article in the Massachusetts Abolitionist has caught her attention; evidently the writer has been accused of “meddling improperly with politics”,…
House of Representatives acts to empower the Governor to take steps to insure that citizens of the state who are charged in slave states as being runaway slaves, be given…
The driver of the coach makes it known that he will “have no damned nigger” on his stage. The article includes this comment on the incident: “Such conduct deserves the…
Under of Refuge of Oppression there is a listing of 72 slaves to be sold on March 11, 1839, in New Orleans, indicating age, infirmities, children, etc. of each.
“From a letter to the editor of the Michigan Observer — I have just received a letter from a highly valued friend in Mississippi, who says, ‘I was recently conversing…
An item from New Orleans claims that a ship, named the Gibraltar, from Boston, has “lots of Negroes on board”. The item says, “Who are the owners of the vessel? …
Here is a letter to Garrison, from Abner G. Kirk, Stare Co., Ohio…. The writer says, “I think the weak ought to be protected from the oppression of the strong,…
There is a notice from New Orleans, dated May 11th, stating that public opinion in Texas is much against “the project of some unprincipled speculators, to smuggle slaves from Cuba…
Here is a notice from the Managers addressed to The Abolitionists of Massachusetts. This is in response to Elizur Wright, who has claimed that the Society has virtually given its…
This is a notice from Zion’s Herald, signed in Boston, May 31, by Dan’l Wise; It is clearly in support of the new Massachusetts Abolition Society, and interestingly placed in…
Here is a long piece, well worth a longer look.
Letter from a meeting in New Bedford, gives support to Garrison and the Liberator. In part the meeting says, “That we hold in utter abhorrence ‘The Massachusetts Abolition Society’, recently…
Barely one line, here is a tidbit of sarcasm: “Good. Friend Rogers writes Liberia thus: Lie-bury-ye!”
A July 22, meeting of the Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society says, “….we do entirely approve the course which the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society has taken, and that our confidence in its…
A. L. Haskell, writes from Newburyport, July 20th: ” I find the most of our anti-slavery friends firmly united to the parent society, the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society….” Then he tells…
Notice of a 175 page book by Chapman, detailing, ” the rise and progress of the schismatical spirit which is now destroying the harmony of the anti-slavery cause, especially in…
Brief notice, by John T. Hilton, Anti-Slavery Intelligence Office, 36 Brattle St., indicating that he receives almost daily requests for colored help, and he “has been induced to try the…
A brief notice …… “it is a case which calls for the sympathy of all true-hearted, impartial lovers of liberty’ that the brave Cinques and his associates have committed no…
A brief item titled, Effrontery: “That pseudo Quaker, and colonization monomaniac, Elliot Cresson, is once more in this Commonwealth, endeavoring to dupe the people out of their money, in support…
A notice from the Hartford, Connecticut Review indicates that the only surviving slave of the General is living in the city of Middletown. He is near one hundred years of…
A long tribute to Lundy, includes a section telling of Garrison’s relation to him, an excerpt of a speech by Lundy, an Obituary, and quotes from previous Liberator references in…
A full first page is devoted to Lecture VIII, from the “Anti-Slavery Lecturer”, under the above title. The editor comments: “We must occupy our present space with further suggestions”; here are…
Calls attention to an appeal from the “Youth’s Cabinet”, and refers to Bro. Southard’s excellent paper. The appeal is evidently from that paper. “Keep the Children Abolitionists. They naturally detest…
Here are shown tables for flowers, refreshments, and reserved spaces of tables from people from nineteen towns.
An item from a “worthy abolitionist in Western New York”: “…. I like the views of The Liberator on political action….. I do not wish to oppose those abolitionists who…
June 7, 1839 An item title, A VOICE FROM THE COLORED PEOPLE OF BOSTON. Notes and resolutions from a June 3 meeting, at the Infant School Room, Belknap Street. The…