PRUDENCE OF THE NEGRO. A bundle of bank deposit books of the savings of Co. H, 35th Regiment U.S. Colored Troops, Lieut. H. W. Batcheller commanding, now stationed at Jacksonville,…
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Fred Douglass delivered an address last Thursday night to an immense audience at the Bethel Church, Baltimore. He was accompanied by his sister, a freed Maryland slave, whom he had…
The Lady’s Almanac for 1865 George Coolidge, 3 Milk street, Boston, has published ““The Lady’s Almanac for 1865”, which is very neatly executed. Besides the usual calendar pages, it contain…
CELEBRATION OF THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. The Proclamation will be celebrated at Tremont Temple, on MONDAY, Jan 2, 1865. Gov. Andrew, Wm Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Rev. A. A. Miner, Robert Morris,…
Harriet Martineau writes to Senator Wilson concerning slavery, and adds: Regarding the proposal to make soldiers of the slaves, our secesh partizans don’t know what to make of it. We…
DESTITUTE FREEDMEN. General Saxton has issued a circular: “Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Charleston, S. C., November 9, 1865 “The freedmen in the States of South Carolina and…
The North should immediately begin the great work of re-peopling the South. Mechanics, farmers, merchants, capitalists are wanted in every Southern State. Before the end of the year, one million…
LLOYD GARRISON SCHOOLS —- COLORED Mr. Garrison is told by the Principal of one that they have recently opened eight schools for colored students in New Orleans “We are proud…
Regarding the proposal to make soldiers of the slaves, our secesh partizans don’t know what to make of it. We of the Northern side are trying to teach them; but…
The Almighty Nigger Among the Churches. The slavery agitation, before the late rebellion, had divided most of the Protestant churches into the Church North and the Church South, and the…
The Raleigh (N.C) Progress gives an estimate of the number of men enlisted in the South, and either killed or disabled during the war. Totals– Enlistments 1, 124,000 — Dead…
Garrison at Charleston April A correspondent of the New York Tribune has some paragraphs about the visit to Fort Sumter. It includes a presentation made to Garrison…
It has been ascertained by the Freedmen’s Bureau, that parties from that city have recently been engaged in enticing freedmen from Washington on board a vessel bond to the newly…
A negro woman, who was baptized a few Sundays ago, at Huntsville, Ala., came forth from the water shouting: “Freed from slavery, freed from sin, bless God and Gen. Grant!”…
An old negro man who attends to Judge Bryan’s office accidentally found “his long-lost brother” a few days ago. They were sold in Virginia when about ten years old, and…
TESTIMONY FROM ALABAMA, regarding Negro intelligence (Liberator Sept 29, 1865, pg…
SOUTHERN ESTIMATION OF COPPERHEADS. (Liberator, Sept 29, 1865, pg 3) The Albany Evening Journal reports the son of a distinquished Southern statesman, saying: “We are loyal — the great mass…
Yesterday as Wirz was on his way from the court room to the Old Capital, a respectably dressed lady, asked the guard if that was the Andersonville butcher? On receiving…
A Colored Juror At the opening of the September term of the Brooklyn City Court on Monday, Mr. Robert Johnson, a colored man, was impanneled as a juror. He served…
January 20, 1865 —- Letter from Gov. Andrew to Lewis Hayden At a Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Masons meeting, a letter from Gov. Andrew to Hayden, is read. With…
Statue of President Lincoln. (Liberator, Sept 15, 1865, pg 3) It is nine feet high, and stands on a pedestal ten feet in height, making a total of nineteen feet.…
The following resolutions were then introduced and unanimously adopted: (Liberator, June 26. 1863 pg 2) — included these phrases: Resolved that we will for ever honor the illustrious name…
.How the Slaves Love Their Masters (Liberator, June 14, 1861,pg 3) Upwards of 150 slaves have sought protection at Fortress Monroe, and been set at work by Gen. Butler. One…
Stampede of Slaves (Liberator, June 14, 1861, pg 3) A Harrisburg (Pa.) letter states that over one hundred fugitives from labor, from the neighborhood of Winchester, Va., arrived there…
The Educational Commission. We are sure that all our subscribers will read with lively interest the Address to the Public which we publish in another column, in behalf of the…
Newspapers favorable to slaveholders (Liberator, Nov 11, 1862, pg 3) WONDERFUL DOCUMENT! 1. Judging from the tone of the Democratic press, the President’s Emancipation Proclamation is a…
We learn from Col. Lawrence, Commandant of the post at Goldsborough, that six negroes were killed at or near Warsaw two weeks ago. ….The former owner of the blacks left…
OUTRAGEOUS It is stated to us that while the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry were lying in the vicinity of the city, and just going home some of their number caught an…
It has been recently decided in a New York court that a person born a slave cannot inherit property. A woman, formerly a slave in Virginia, claimed the estate of…
THE NEGRO QUESTION IN KENTUCKY The Mayor of Lexington Does One Thing and the Military Authorities Upset It. Notice — The congregation of colored persons in this city, claimed to…