December 14, 1849 A petition calls for the State legislature to grant the vote to women. The editor includes a preface saying that “the denial of the elective franchise to…
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December 14, 1849 Writing from London, Nov 23, 1849, Brown addresses his former master, Capt. Enoch Price, of St. Louis, Mo. His closing paragraph includes: “I will not yield to…
December 14, 1849 From the Boston Courier of Dec. 5, is an account of the arguments presented to the Court re. the Roberts case. The arguments made by Charles Sumner…
December 7, 1849 The Roberts case has just been argued before the Mass. Supreme Court. “…if the Bill of Rights in this State be not a dead letter, and the…
November 30, 1849 Here is a memorial to the House and Senate of Massachusetts, calling for a repeal of all laws which enforce the observance of a day of the…
November 9, 1849 Referring to his visit with the Mott’s, while in Philadelphia, Garrison acknowledges a special debt to them. Remembering their early work with Benjamin Lundy, and abolition, he…
November 2, 1849 The letter to Garrison, is written from London, October 12, and, in part, tells the story of one encounter on board the ship going to England. There…
October 26, 1849 The article, with the above title, is from “The New York correspondent of the Washington Union.” Without including the statistics used to advance the author’s argument, here…
October 19, 1849 From the Dover Morning Star, an article title, Evidence of Grace – Southern Theology tells of the visit of Rev. Dr. Bullard, of St. Louis, who spoke…
September 28, 1849 From the New York Tribune comes an account of the proclamation of the Haitian President, Faustin Soulouque, as Emperor, under the name Faustin I. The article gives…
September 21, 1849 An article signed, “W.C.N.”, (William Cooper Nell) regrets the action of the School Committee, which has voted to continue the separate Smith School. They have acted, in…
September 21, 1849 In an article titled, Ecclesiastical Action Respecting Slavery, signed “C.K.W.”, here is a critical report of actions taken by the ministers at a May annual meeting. The…
September 7, 1849 A notice signed by Francis Jackson and Ellis Gray Loring that a sum of money remitted to Kentucky, has resulted in Fairbank’s liberation on August 23. The…
September 7, 1849 Here are notes from a meeting of colored citizens at the Belknap street Independent Baptist Church, Monday evening, Aug 27th. The resolutions recorded are long, but here…
August 10, 1849 July 23 a large number of people were present. Among the resolutions passed: “… that all ‘exclusive schools’ are injurious to the welfare of the community,…
August 10, 1849 A letter to Garrison, signed by J. H.C, from Pepperell, tells of speeches by Lucy Stone at the Unitarian meeting house. It indicates that the welcome of…
August 10, 1849 An account of the Third of August gathering, in Worcester, with several of the speeches given, includes this note: “Henry Box Brown, in the intervals of the…
August 10, 1849 This is a selection from the North Star, written by Douglass. He indicates that Garnet is on his way to England…”the particular object of his mission to…
August 3, 1849 On the back page of the issue is an ad for Hayden’s clothing store, No. 107 Cambridge St… The announcement refers to Hayden, ” who, it will…
July 27, 1849 When the pitcher is presented, it is not clear who was the chairman of the occasion, but probably Hilton, who said of Garrison, “We cannot compensate him,…
July 13, 1849 Notice that, on July 16, under the auspices of the colored citizens of Boston, there will be a presentation of a pitcher to Garrison, after which there…
July 6, 1849 In a letter to Garrison, Edward Search, writing for London, June, 1849, comments on his “my advertence to the doctrine of non-resistance….I am with you in the…
June 29, 1849 Under the title, Slavery and the Union, there is reference to the Richmond Whig, which in parallel columns, has included an extract from the Columbia (S.C.) Telescope, …
June 29, 1849 From Westminster, June 22, from Alfred Wyman: “I send you $5.00 as a donation to the Mass. A.S. Society. It is but a small amount, considering he…
June 22, 1849 Here is a letter to the Editor, from Samuel Gregory, Sec’ry A.M. E. Society, at 25 Cornhill. It indicates that the American Medical Education Society, with five…
June 22, 1849 “The death of the late Ex-President of the United States is announced to have taken place last Friday night near Nashville, Tennessee. His complaint was chronic diarrhea. …
June 22, 1849 “It is frequently asserted by those who oppose the Wilmot proviso, that slavery cannot exist in California, unless established by law, and that a positive prohibition is…
June 1, 1849 The same issue has a notice of a public meeting to be held in the Melodeon, to take into consideration the hanging of Goode, “and to effect…
June 1, 1849 An item from the Boston Evening Traveller of Friday, tells of the execution. It mentions clergymen who had access to his cell in the last few days…
May 25, 1849 Here is a listing of thirty towns, naming the number of Legal Voters, and Non Voters, who have signed petitions urging the Governor to call a Convention…
May 25, 1849 Under the Refuge of Oppression, from the New Orleans Picayune, there is a listing of seven notices of Slaves/Negroes for Sale. The names of the sellers or…
May 18, 1849 At the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, here are a few excerpted sentences from resolutions passed. Regarding the Free Soil Party: “… while we…
May 4, 1849 Here J.M. Spear submits a list of towns from which 24,522 people have signed petitions for the repreve of Goode; then includes a single opposing petition ,…
April 20, 1849 Here is a listing, submitted by J. M. Spear, of fifty-nine towns from which 5119 petitions have been collected, and forwarded to the legislature.
April 20, 1849 From the Louisville Journal , under the title The Union, is a warning against “the evil tendency of sectional controversies”. It comments on the Massachusetts Abolition Society…
April 13, 1849 Death and funeral of Garrison’s child is noted. Speakers at the service included Parker, Phillips, Quincy, Pillsbury, Wright, John Spear, Bronson Alcott.
April 13, 1849 A report from the N.W. Washingtonian of an enthusiastic meeting at Tremont Temple, at which about five hundred people signed a petition for Goode’s repreve The article…
April 6, 1849 An item from the Harrisburg Keystone, conveys a view of legislation and legislators. It asks farmers, mechanics, laboring men to review the huge volume of acts passed…
April 6, 1849 “The meeting at the Tremont Temple, on Sunday evening last, to extend to William and Ellen Crafts, the interesting fugitives from Georgia, a public welcome, was one…
March 30, 1849 Under the title Shall He Be Hung?, here is an article about Washington Goode, a “colored man, a sailor, … under sentence of death”….noted is a petition…
March 23, 1849 Signed by Abner Ross, Fairfield District, is notice of a “negro girl named Molly”, who has run away …. “She is sixteen or seventeen years of age…
March 16, 1849 This letter, is from Clay to Richard Pindell, Esq., dated Feb 17, 1849, New Orleans. Clay states his unhappiness with slavery and he laments that in 1799…
March 9, 1849 Joseph Merrill writes from Danvers (New Mills), Feb 22, 1849, and praises highly both of the Fosters, who have held a series of meetings in that town.
February 23, 1849 Under the title They Fear the Light, here are the resolutions adopted at the Mass Anti-Slavery Society meeting, and the subject of the articles which appeared in…
February 16, 1849 Martin Stowell writes to Garrison, from Warren, Jan 30, 1849. He tells the story of his wife, who wrote a letter to her church, charging them with…
February 16, 1849 A note about Anti-Slavery meetings in New Bedford, two successive evenings. W.W. Brown introduced the Crafts. During the presentations by the two they were questioned by the…
February 9, 1849 Here is the first of articles on the titled subject, by Angelique Le Petit Martin, Trumbull Phalanx, Braceville, Trumbull Co., Ohio, Jan 17, 1849
February 9, 1849 A letter to Garrison, from T. Bicknell, Kingston, Feb 8th, tells of an Anti-Slavery meeting in the Town Hall. W. W. Brown, and the Crafts, and Jonathan…
February 9, 1849 Placed under Refuge of Oppression, from the Boston Recorder, here is some flavor of the article, titled Calhoun and Garrison: “Though influenced by somewhat different motives, Calhoun…
January 26, 1849 Here is notice of an ACS meeting recently, in Washington. It records that there were 443 emigrants for Liberia in the past year, of whom 324 were…