“Prejudice may be compared to a misty morning in October . A man goes forth to an eminence, and sees at the summit of a neighboring hill, a figure of…
Category: <span>Prejudice</span>
Items from a lady who has resided in North Carolina for some time, tells accounts of how slaves celebrate Christmas. One is a story of witnessing a slave celebration, which…
Here Goodell argues against the common assumption that all knowledge has come from descendants of Europeans: “To whom did the Greeks and the Romans look for instruction in letters and…
This meeting held in Greenville, R.I., October 10 includes four resolutions, gives strong support to the American Anti-Slavery Society, and to immediate emancipation. Prejudice in the Church From the New…
Notice of appearance in a Kentucky court of a woman in slavery, who alleged she was white. It was claimed that she had been in slavery from childhood until about…
July 15, 1842 Here is an “Interesting Letter from England”, signed only W.H.Ashurst, from Musell Hill, Hornsey, April 30, 1842 The letter makes a number of points: “We are struggling…
August 26, 1842 Here is an essay on the means of removing prejudice against color, by S. Linstant, of Paris. Garrison introduces it by citing the qualifications of its author,…
June 11, 1847 Under the column, Refuge of Oppression there are two brief notes about Bibb; one tells of Bibb, saying that he will probably go to England, as…
August 30, 1855 Under the Refuge of Oppression, a column from the New York Evening Mirror comments on the assertion of abolitionists, that a Negro man is like a White…
September 24, 1858 From the Chelsea Telegraph & Pioneer, there is an article in which reference is made the record of Robert Morris, Esq. “The world is full of prejudices…
April 29, 1859 From the Boston Traveler, a notice that during 1858, in Boston, nine colored males married to white women, the same number as in 1857. “There is not…
March 6, 1863 A brief notice that the colored men of Michigan have met in Convention, and appointed a committee to visit with the Legislature, and urge removal of the…
March 20, 1863 A brief article commends Senator Sumner, who moved an amendment to a question being considered about the incorporation of a horse railroad company in the District of…
January 1, 1864 New from Missouri, in a speech by Hon. Henry T. Blow, to a large audience at the Union League rooms, Washington. “The latest intelligence from Missouri induces…