January 3, 1851 “It is impossible to describe the emotion we feel in commencing our third decade as the editor of the Liberator. The contrast in the state of public…
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January 3, 1851 Under the title A Contrast, from the New York Independent, there is an item about a meeting on the evening of Monday, Dec 23, held by the…
January 3, 1851 Recognition of the death of Snowden, October 8, at the age of 85. “Many a colored mariner, who has sailed from the North to southern ports, would…
January 10, 1851 An Appeal and Remonstrance, To the Working Men of America who are invested with the Elective Franchise. A long letter, concluding with, “We call upon you, by…
January 10, 1851 The Vigilance Committee of Boston, issues a call for petitions to go to members of Congress and the State Legislature, asking for immediate repeal of the law.
January 10, 1851 Micajah T. Johnson, from Short Creek, O, calls upon non-resisters not to give in to the temptation to join those who urge violence in response to the…
January 24, 1851 Notice that the Mass. Senate has elected Charles Sumner to the U. S. Senate, with a term beginning on March 4th. He received 23 votes, three more…
January 31, 1851 Gold watch presented to Garrison; the inscription: “Presented by George Thompson, M.P., (On behalf of himself and others,) to William Lloyd Garrison, the intrepid and uncompromising friend…
January 31, 1851 Depending on a source in the Barnstable Patriot, and from the Journal, here is a brief article about “come-outers”: “Several of these poor deluded beings in Barnstable,…
February 7, 1851 Song sung by all at the twentieth anniversary Soiree: I AM AN ABOLITIONIST By Wm. Lloyd Garrison Air – Auld Lang Syne I am an Abolitionist …
February 14, 1851 Here is an item from the Annual Report of the Police Department of the City of Boston, January, 1851. “Its facts and statistics are admonitory and instructive,…
February 21, 1851 There differing accounts of the arrest, rescue, and flight of Shadrach. One is from the editor, one “chiefly from the ‘Commonwealth’”, and one a copy of the…
February 21, 1851 Elizur Wright (an editor of the Commonwealth), John Foye, a colored man, and James Scott, a colored man, were arrested on the charge of aiding the escape…
February 28, 1851 Notice is given of the temporary suspension of Garrisons’ regular duties as editor, due to health. His case should not “excite serious alarm”, and the notice is…
February 28, 1851 A letter from Francis Bishop, dated Dec 28, 1850, in Liverpool, gives assurance that the Crafts have arrived safely on board the Cambria…..”they are now beyond the…
February 28, 1851 Notice of a petition to Harvard asking that measures be taken to open the classes of the Schools of Theology, Medicine, Law, and Science, “to all persons,…
March 21, 1851 Under the title Something to Do, here is a list of sixteen essays, sermons, articles, letters, called to the attention of readers, urging them to read and…
March 28, 1851 Under the Refuge of Oppression, from the Syracuse Star, comes this assessment of Thompson’s appearance: “He is not without power as an orator, but at the same…
March 28, 1851 Notice of an assembly to be held in Worcester, Tuesday, April 8, signed by people from twenty-one towns, “and a great many others whose names will be…
April 4, 1851 Under the title Let Massachusetts Speak! , it is noted that the State Convention to be held in opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law, previously scheduled for…
April 11, 1851 An account of Sim’s arrest, dated, April 4. He was arrested in Cooper Street; he gave “stout resistance”, was “at last overcome by a large posse of…
April 18, 1851 From the Boston Courier, under the title, Massachusetts Legislature, is notice that “Mr. Keyes” has presented a petition to the Senate, on behalf of Thomas Sims, and…
April 25, 1951 In the Senate, March 24, the Joint Special Committee, cites arguments and the history of previous actions by the legislature, including references to the 1793 Fugitive Slave…
May 2, 1851 From the Providence Mirror, comes a notice that “a number of fugitive slaves left this city on Monday for Canada.” The article cites one instance of “Mr.…
May 2, 1851 An unnamed student, in an article from the N.H. Independent Democrat, writes to include a petition to the Mass. legislature asking that it take action to protect…
May 2, 1851 “On Thursday of last week, Charles Sumner was elected U. S. Senator, having received 193 votes out of the 286 — the precise number necessary to a…
May 9, 1851 A report that the annual meeting of the First Congregational Society of North Brookfield has adopted resolutions which name the Fugitive Slave Law as “oppressive, unrighteous and…
May 9, 1851 “Mrs. Bloomer, editor of the Lily, has adopted the ‘short dress and trowsers’ and says in her paper of this month that many of the women of…
May 30, 1851 A group of one hundred clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Massachusetts, in petition reported here, have communicated with the Senate of the state, indicating a…
June 6, 1851 Under the Refuge of Oppression column, from the Charleston Mercury, is an article signed “Cogitator”. It calls for South Carolina to secede from the Union. “The only…
June 20, 1851 An account of the trial indicates that Hayden was charged with aiding in the rescue of Shadrach; defense was conducted by Richard H. Dana, and John P.…
June 20, 1851 Here is announcement from the North Star that the Rochester office of the North Star will soon issue a new weekly paper bearing the title, ‘Frederick Douglass…
June 27, 1851 A letter from Parker Pillsbury, from Concord, N.H., dated June 9, 1851, gives a negative account of a lecture by an agent of the Colonization Society, a…
July 4, 1851 In this announcement of the new paper, Garrison indicates that he prefers the old title “because of its brevity; because it wholly avoids the appearance of egotism…” …
July 11, 1851 Under the Refuge of Oppression column, titled How They Hate Slavery, is an article stating that a proposition has been adopted by the Virginia Reform Convention, which…
July 18, 1851 A letter from Maria Weston Chapman, written to the editor of the Anti-Slavery Standard, gives encouraging word of a gathering of women with whom she met while…
August 1, 1851 William P. Powell, writes to Garrison, telling of being refused accommodations at the Samoset House, in Plymouth. Garrison comments that Powell is a highly respected citizen of…
August 8, 1851 In a letter to Maria Weston Chapman, Hugo speaks strongly against slavery: “Slavery in the United States! It is the duty of this republic to set such…
August 8, 1851 An account of a scheduled concert by the Hutchinsons, in Wyman’s Hall. There had been some discussion about allowing them to perform. On the evening prior to…
August 8, 1851 An account of the Convention, held at Albany. Resolutions expressed an opposition to the colonization scheme, “claiming the right to remain here and follow respectively whatever business…
August 8, 1851 This article tells of the intent to create the School, indicates that there will be a meeting at which the Board of Directors will be chosen, and…
August 22, 1851 “The following is an Irishman’s description of making a cannon —- ‘take a long hole and pour brass or iron around it.’”
September 26, 1851 From the London Morning Advertiser, comes news that the Crafts have been received as pupils in the Ockham Schools, which were established by Lady Byron. William is…
October 3, 1851 Under the title Another Shadrach Case, here is an account from Syracuse, of a man named Henry, who while on a charge of having escaped from slavery,…
November 7, 1851 An item from Philadelphia, signed only “J.N.”, comments on a recent Friends Meeting, at Cherry Street. A member of the Society, during his remarks, speaks against the…
November 7, 1851 Writing from Jeffersonville, Fairbank tells of the need of Abolitionist speakers in Indiana. “Public sentiment is more pro-slavery here than in Kentucky, because in Kentucky, many of…
November 7, 1851 Henry C. Wright, writes from Indiana, where he has attended a Women’s Convention. The Convention has adopted several strong anti-slavery resolutions. One Methodist leader, Bible in hand,…
December 12, 1851 From Louisville, Nov. 13, Fairbank writes from jail, “once more” for having given aid and comfort to an oppressed slave”. He gives an account of the event,…