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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1840-05-23 | | Notes: | The editor discusses the recent meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society members and their decision to form a new national society. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1841-05-08 | | Notes: | Brief announcement of upcoming meetings to celebrate the anniversaries of two major anti-slavery societies. (Included is a very brief mention of a meeting of the "liberated Africans," which refers to the Amistad captives.) |
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| Speaker or Author: | Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882. | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | The Anniversary of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. | | Date Published: | 1847-07-01 | | Notes: | Speech calling for an end to slavery and asking that America join this fight for the emancipation of all slaves. He says: "The children of Africa, scattered as they were all over the world, unnationed, appealed to America for redress -- that America whose sails whiten every sea, and whose diplomatic parchment is lying in every court..." |
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| Speaker or Author: | Bibb, Henry, b. 1815 | | Newspaper: | Emancipator | | Title: | American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society | | Date Published: | 1849-05-17 | | Notes: | Brief speech regarding the importance of supplying slaves with Bibles. (Speech 09773 is a duplicate of this speech.) (Includes MP3 audio file.) |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852) | | Date Published: | 1851-05-21 | | Notes: | Very brief overview of a lecture delivered by Henry Ward Beecher in New York. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Lane, Lunsford, b. 1803. | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Bugle | | Title: | American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society | | Date Published: | 1855-05-19 | | Notes: | Overview of a speech given to request financial assistance for a black church congregation in Boston, Massachusetts. The Society collected the requested funds, but would have turned down the request if the speaker had asked for money to fight slavery. |
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