Category: <span>1857</span>

November 6, 1957 Here is a report from the Convention which was held.  Addresses were made by C. L. Remond,  Parker Pillsbury, and A. K. Foster.  Resolutions were passed in…

1857 Disunion

1857

December 4, 1857 The death of Birney is recognized, with a recounting of his major accomplishments. He was highly courteous and dignified in his manners, less able as a speaker…

1857 Birney, James

December 11, 1857 William Cooper Nell calls again for abandonment of separate schools for colored children, including in his appeal, reference to an article in the Providence Journal, which speaks…

1857 Separate schools

December 25. 1957 Notice of Rock’s failing health, his general declining condition.  He hopes to “gain relief from a change of climate”, and “he asks the generous to aid him”.…

1857 Rock, John