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 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…
April 1, 1842 One sentence: “DIED — in this city, Primus Hall, aged 89 – a venerable colored revolutionary pensioner.”
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.” …..…
March 11, 1842 Under Refuge of Oppression, preceded by a comment:”Another touch of democracy!” From the Boston Morning Post, titled The North and the South: “We are sorry to see…
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.
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…
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…
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…
January 28, 1842 Two lines tell of Pete, a slave who murdered Mrs. McMahon and daughter, in McMinn County. He was hung.
January 21, 1842 This is a notice from the Governor, to the state Legislature, “laying before it a law of Virginia, calculated to embarrass our commerce.” The message includes the…
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.
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…
January 7, 1842 Included here simply to give a hint of some of the variety of topics included in the paper. This unsigned article occupies about one-half column of…
January 7, 1842 “To the friends of the Liberator”, a notice signed by Francis Jackson, Samuel Philbrick, Ellis Gray Loring, Sm.Bassett, and Edmund Qincy, dated December 31, 1841 Indicates that,…
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…