From the Salem Register, with a heading, Love’s Labor Lost, there is the story of a habeaus corpus sued out under the name of Joshua Upham, of Salem. The case…
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A notice from the Christian Reflector, tells of action taken by the Baptist Church in Royalston Centre, Mass. The resolution, passed by the church, names slavery as “a great moral…
Under a title, Life in New Orleans, there is a listing of six advertisements which offer rewards varying from $5 to $100, from slaveholders, for the return of slaves who…
Here is the story of Henry. H. White, sentenced for ten years in January, 1837, on the charge of being an accessory (his brother being the principal, and acquitted), charged…
With high praise notes the graduation of Thomas Paul, son of the late Rev. Thomas Paul. “He is now in Boston, anxious to employ his talents and educational attainments in…
Under Refuge of Oppression, the record of a public meeting in Jefferson County, Mississippi. Here is an assertion that “the citizens of the State of Mississippi have the constitutional right…
Here is an item from the Congregational Journal, a letter signed by T. P. Beach, dated Aug 2, 1841, in Campton (no state) …. Beach has stepped down from the…
Records her presence and participation. “Among those who cheered the meeting with their presence were two of those of the rejected delegates to the pseudo ‘world’s convention”, Lucretia Mott and…
These “wafers” are designed for sealing letters, and are available at 25 Cornhill. “They constitute a valuable addition to the means of usefulness already possessed by abolitionists. Each sheet contains…
An item from the N.Y. Herald, says that terrible practice of ‘lynch law’ is spreading in the South. “Men are now lynched by the dozens, instead of singly; and their…
Here are two columns listing the anti-slavery mottoes on the Wafers Samples: “Love God above and , and thy neighbor as thyself, and slavery would disappear from the earth.” “The…
“Nearly twenty colored men lost their votes in one ward, because their names were left off the voting lists. So with many white men. Let every voter call at 32…
March 5, 1836 In a letter from Brooklyn, Ct, Feb 10, 1836, written to Mr. Oliver Johnson, Garrison indicates that he cannot attend the meeting of the Vermont Anti Slavery…
March 12, 1836 From the Milledgeville, GA Federal Union $10,000 REWARD For A. A. Phelps A Noted Abolitionist February 1, 1836
April 2, 1836 Includes a listing of resolutions passed at an Anti-Abolition meeting, Sept 18, 1835, at the Barnesville Court House, (city or town not given) So. Carolina, essentially these…
May 28, 1836 This issue includes an account of the Convention of the NEASS
March 18, 1837 Meeting in Susquehanna township, elects men as trustees of the school, and authorizes them to allow speakers of various denominations to speak in the school, “but in…
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…
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…
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 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 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 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 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 28, 1842 Two lines tell of Pete, a slave who murdered Mrs. McMahon and daughter, in McMinn County. He was hung.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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 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 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 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 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 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…
April 1, 1842 One sentence: “DIED — in this city, Primus Hall, aged 89 – a venerable colored revolutionary pensioner.”
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 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…
April 22, 1842 Reference is made to the proceedings of the Baltimore Repeal Association, included in the Boston Pilot. The Baltimore group has declared that the Irish Address is “a…
April 29, 1842 A letter signed by H. C. Wright, dated April 15, from Philadelphia —- the writer claims that the sentiment which he expresses dominates in Pennsylvania. “It is…
May 6, 1842 “A chattel, who has taken to itself wings and flown away from the land of whips and chains, is in immediate want of a situation as coachman…
May 13, 1842 From the Baptist Church of Christ, North Yarmouth, Maine, comes a strong statement that “slavery is a heinous sin”… “the church will not knowingly admit to its…
May 20, 1842 This item is titled, “Daring Judicial attempt to excite a Mob, and to suppress Freedom of Speech”, and is introduced as an “Extract from a Charge delivered…
May 20, 1842 A note saying that “one hundred and twenty Indians arrived at New Orleans on the 15th, from Florida, on their way to the far West.”
June 3, 1842 An article from the N.Y. Evangelist, is a strong statement in support of the American Union….. “THE AMERICAN UNION MUST AND WILL BE PRESERVED, , nay more…
June 3, 1842 Here are resolutions passed by a large gathering of colored citizens at the Infant School Room, May 28th, 1842 . The Resolutions petition the Legislature to “prohibit…
June 10, 1842 An item from the Washington Globe, warning that the Massachusetts Legislature “are resolved to make black and white the same”….. It worries that because there is an…
June 24, 1842 Here is a lengthy excerpt from Channing’s, The Duty of the Free States, with a clear call to maintain the Union
July 1, 1842 From the Natchez Free Trader comes the story of two slaves burned alive because of a series of dreadful outrages they have allegedly perpetrated. The account is…