THE HUTCHINSON FAMILY….. “reorganized, reconstructed and augmented:, by the union of the “House of John” and “Tribe of Asa” – will continue their series of spirit-stirring Concerts in the cause…
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The May 8, 1863 Liberator, on the first full page, “groups together some of the numerous flattering testimonials which this gifted young lady has recently elicited from the press, and…
A private letter from New Orleans says Gen. Butler recently took possession of two large plantations near the city, and transferred a large number of loyal blacks to them for…
Meetings in Boston On Wednesday evening, Aug. 3d, William Still, from the Anti-Slavery Office, Philadelphia, interested a crowded audience at the Twelfth Baptist Church with a lecture on the…
SPECIAL NOTICE ! The friends of the Anti-Slavery cause are invited to assemble at Stacy Hall, 46 Washington street, on Sunday, October 21st, at 2 o’clock P. M., to commemorate…
The February 26, 1978, pg 2 Liberator, includes this item, with the classic printed “Garrison finger” giving it attention. “Here is another letter from our philanthropic friend, Richard Allen, in…
“At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, held in Boston, on Thursday, June 11, 1846, the following preamble and resolution, respecting the contemplated mission of…
“In the two Houses of Congress on Monday, the discussion of the President’s Message was brief but animated. The proposition to authorize the President to employ the land and naval…
“A correspondent of the Bangor Gazette, residing in Baltimore, makes the following statement, in a letter to the editor of that paper, dated July 4th … The great body of…
“This gentleman is said to be the richest man in the State of Kentucky. He resides near Lexington, and has been for a long time a member of the State…
“The abolitionists, male and female, of Albany and adjacent counties, are invited to attend a meeting to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 21st and 22nd of September, to…
This famous abolition song is announced in the Liberator, April 19, 1844, pg 3 A Song for Emancipation , sung by the Hutchinsons. Dedicated to Nathanael P. Rogers, as a…
The Board of Managers of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society to the Abolitionists of the Commonwealth, published in the Liberator, February 9, 1844: “Our best energies go forward to meet you,…
A Great Man Fallen! “The afflicting intelligence contained in the following letter, reaches us at a moment when neither time nor room allows us to express the emotions that throng…
A large and overwhelming meeting of the citizens of Boston and vicinity was held in the Old Cradle of Liberty, on Friday evening, January 28, 1842, favorable t0 the immediate…
The Vigilance Fair was organized by the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Participating towns are listed, January 14, 1842 , Liberator, pg 3
Among those who graduated at the late commencement at Dartmouth College, was our young colored friend, Thomas Paul, son of the late Rev. Thomas Paul, of this city. … he…
The Liberator, September 17, 1841, pg 3, includes an item titled James Forten — Among the colored citizens of the republic, there is not one who is held in…
It is expected that during the week of the non-resistance meeting, on the 21st and 22nd of September, a meeting will be held on further measures to call a World’s…
From the Lynn Record — The Anniversary of West India Emancipation was celebrated Sunday evening last in Boston at the Marlboro Chapel, by a splendid meeting, at which Francis Jackson,…
Intelligence has been received that our late worthy colored citizen, Mr. James G. Barbadoes, died at St. Ann’s Bay, (Jamaica) on the 22nd of June last, of the ‘West Indies…
On Tuesday morning last, the official, authoritative announcement was sent over the whole country, with lightening speed, that the Abolition of Slavery and its PROHIBITION forever were engrafted upon the…
Between four and five hundred people were present at a public meeting of the Vigilance Committee, held at Tremont Chapel, including many of the pro-slavery merchants of the city. The…
Pursuant to a public call, signed by several citizens of Boston, a meeting of those friendly to the formation of a Boston Vigilance Committee convened that the Marlboro Chapel, Hall…
The late census furnishes us some data by which we may approximate to the truth, respecvting this atrocius traffic. The whole increase of slaves, with the rate per cent, for…
To William Lloyd Garrison, “My dear Sir, I regret to see that Liberator has to struggle for support. The friends of the slave must not, and will not, let the…
The Liberator shows names of tables put up by over 40 towns, at the 1840 Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, held in Marlboro Hall. Towns include Boston, Weymouth, Roxbury, Wrentham, Plymouth-Dedham, Stoneham,…
At the beginning of the second decade of the Liberator, the January 1, 1841 issue, pg 2 begins A New Volume. We commence this day, the elventh volume of the…
Last spring an association was formed, composed of thirty or forty colored men of Baltimore, who purchased the building on Lexington Street, occupied as the Newton University, for the sum…
This thoroughly disciplined and heroic command … with the smoke of battle hardly yet removed from the garments of its brave members, was received by the people of Boston, this…
The colored veterans of the 54th Regiment, being in New Bedford 22 in number, were handsomely received home by the citizens of that city, Saturday evening. They were welcomed at…
The best news lately received from Europe was that which we published yesterday, to the effect that King Louis of Portugal, when closing the Cortes, promised a strict law for…
The Liberator, September 9, 1865, pg 3, has an announcement of Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Jr., as a Wool Commission Merchant at No. 6 Channing Street, Boston….with every facility for selling…
It was announced in the Liberator, July 7, 1865, pg 3, that General Butler had presented $5000, to Phillips Academy, to provide a scholarships, fifty years, for the son of…
Rev. Calvin Fairbank, who was imprisoned for many years in Kentucky, gave a narrative of his experience and sufferings, in Tremont Temple, Sunday evening. Mr. Fairbank was sentenced to fifteen…
The joy which filled all hearts at the time of the publication of the Liberator last week, in view of the recent great and repeated successes of the National Cause…
In the Liberator of April 14, 1865, pg 3 comes news from Richmond. “At four o’clock in the morning of Monday, April 8, Major A. H. Stevens, of the 4th…
Reported in the Liberator, July 7, 1865, pg. 4 is the Address on the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Delivered at the request of the Rhode Island Union League, in the…
“The rejection of the women delegates from this country, however it may be viewed by some of our friends, seems to me to afford no just grounds or even excuse…
(Liberator, October 30, 1840, pg 2) Here are extracts from letters from Martineau and Knight, read at a meeting of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society meeting, commenting on Garrison’s action…
A letter from Lucretia Mott to O’Connell, asking for his opinion on the question, and then extracts from his response. He indicates that he was at first against the admission…
Arrival of Garrison and N. P. Rogers home from England. “Those two distinquished champions of universal liberty landed at an early hour on Monday, the 17th inst, at East Boston,…
The Liberator, April 21, 1865, pg 2. “The joy which filled all hearts at the time of the publication of the Liberator last week, in view of the recent…
We have received an account of a riot which took place last evening outside of the large new building called the “Pennsylvania Hall”, lately opened in this city for scientific…
Here is notice that the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass will soon be published. The notice includes the Preface, written by Garrison. “The subject and the author of…
Characteristically, listed on the first page of the May 12, 1832 Liberator is a quote from words of an Abolitionist. in this case from Rev. George Bourne. “There is not,…
NOW IN PRESS , and will soon be published, ‘Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman’. Addressed to Mary S. Parker, President of the Boston…
On the 30th of July, at 6 p.m. “a large concourse of people assembled at the Exchange, …. they proceeded to the office of the Philanthropist, broke in, smashed the…
The Annual Meeting of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, Nov. 19, was held at the home of Francis Jackson. Harriet Martineau was featured speaker. (Liberator, November 21, 1835)
“Was anything ever more weak or more pitiable than this? …. All honor to General Hunter … and shame and confusion of face to the President for his halting, shuffling,…