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| Speaker or Author: | Gardner, Charles | | Newspaper: | Presscopy -- Fourth Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society, pp. 11-15 | | Date Published: | 1837 | | Notes: | Speech given regarding the possible positive results of immediate emancipation, and how freed slaves will live in and contribute to society. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1837-05-06 | | Notes: | The writer announces the anniversary celebration of the American Anti-Slavery Society. This organization holds an important place in a country whose government and Churches are swayed by prejudice, a system based on slaveholding, and continued corruption. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Smith, James McCune, 1813-1865 | | Newspaper: | Presscopy -- Fifth Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, pp. 24-30 | | Date Published: | 1838 | | Notes: | Speech in response to a resolution put forward for the American Anti-Slavery Society to support similar societies in Britain and France in their efforts to abolish slavery. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1838-06-09 | | Notes: | The editorial appeals to new readers to become subscribers to the newspaper. The writer notes the importance of the newspaper and its benefit to the African American community. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Harris, Andrew, of Philadelphia | | Newspaper: | Emancipator | | Title: | Speeches at the Anniversary | | Date Published: | 1839 | | Notes: | Speech against the injustices and horrors of slavery given at the annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1839-05-11 | | Notes: | The writer announces an upcoming convention to be held on the anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He briefly mentions the challenges that lay ahead for this organization. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1839-05-18 | | Notes: | The writer offers criticism of the American Anti-Slavery Society. The society focuses all its efforts on the abolition of slavery and the condition of the slaves in the south, that there is no energy left to address the problems facing free African Americans in the north. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1839-11-09 | | Notes: | The writer relates an incidence regarding the prejudicial employment practice of a "certain business." |
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| Speaker or Author: | Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882. | | Newspaper: | Presscopy -- Seventh Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, pp. 1-7 | | Title: | Seventh Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society | | Date Published: | 1840 | | Notes: | Speech given on the seventh anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society in response to a resolution put forth stating that all rights and immunities of American citizenship should be afforded to all Americans including the free people of color. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1840-05-09 | | Notes: | The writer tells his readers about an upcoming week of speeches to be delivered by various branches of the American Anti-Slavery Society to celebrate their anniversary. |
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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: | 1840-07-11 | | Notes: | The writer replies to a letter from the immigration agent for Trinidad to a member of Britain's parliament blaming the actions of abolitionists for the current racial tension in the U.S. The agent reasoned that for free African Americans, immigration was the only rational choice. The writer disagreed with his conclusions. |
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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: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1841-05-29 | | Notes: | The writer responds to a comment made by Thomas Van Rensselaer that the free African American people are pro-slavery and "priest-ridden." |
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| Speaker or Author: | Lane, Lunsford, b. 1803. | | Newspaper: | Western Citizen | | Title: | Lunsford Lane and His Emancipated Family | | Date Published: | 1842-08-05 | | Notes: | Speech given by Lunsford Lane describing how he purchased his family from slavery. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Buffalo Convention. | | Date Published: | 1847-10-08 | | Notes: | Speech given during an American Anti-Slavery Society convention in response to the assertion that there were three parties working towards emancipation: the Liberty Party, the Liberty League, and the American Anti-Slavery Society. Each party has its own mission and goals. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Ward, Samuel Ringgold, b. 1817 | | Newspaper: | Pennsylvania Freeman | | Title: | Speeches at the Anniversary Meeting of the American A. S. Society. | | Date Published: | 1850-05-16 | | Notes: | Speech responding to a claim made by Captain Isaiah Rynders that he could prove the Negro race had descended from monkeys. Captain Rynders and a man referred to as Dr. Grant were attempting to convince others of the racial inferiority of the Negro race. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852) | | Date Published: | 1852-06-03 | | Notes: | The writer provides a brief review of a soon to be published literary work by Martin R. Delany. In his work, Delany discusses colonization and how it is affecting the U.S. and other parts of the world. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 | | Newspaper: | Liberator | | Title: | Anti-Slavery Meeting at Syracuse and Rochester | | Date Published: | 1854-10-27 | | Notes: | Speaker commented on the comparison Frederick Douglass made between the rescue of William "Jerry" Henry in Syracuse and the case of the fugitive Anthony Burns in Boston. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897. | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society | | Date Published: | 1855-05-19 | | Notes: | Speech regarding the ways in which slavery has "...corrupted the whole mass of American society." The speaker points out political issues as well as women's issues that have been and continue to be affected by the political and economic power of the institution of slavery. (Speech 16796 is a duplicate of this speech.) |
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| Speaker or Author: | Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898 | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | American Anti-Slavery Society. Twenty-Fourth Anniversary. | | Date Published: | 1857-05-23 | | Notes: | Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Law, emphasizing the lack of representation and civil rights of African Americans in the structure of U. S. government. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 | | Newspaper: | Liberator | | Title: | Speech of C. L. Remond at the Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, in New York City, on Tuesday, May 12th, 1858 | | Date Published: | 1858-05-21 | | Notes: | Speech given in response to a resolution presented before the American Abolition Society meeting. The speaker said that so far all attempts at a peaceful resolution to the issue of slavery have failed. He could see the direction the country was going, and while he didn't agree with dissolving the Union, he could understand the need for radical change at that point. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911. | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Speech of Miss Frances Ellen Watkins | | Date Published: | 1858-05-22 | | Notes: | Eloquent speech regarding the ongoing issue of free versus slave state designation as new states enter the Union. The speaker told of her experience as witness to the continued degradation suffered by slaves. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862) | | Date Published: | 1861-05-04 | | Notes: | The writer comments on the American Anti-Slavery Society's decision to postpone their annual meeting. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862) | | Date Published: | 1862-04-12 | | Notes: | Dr. Joshua Leavitt, long time leader in the American Anti-Slavery Society, seems now to believe that Colonization is the answer to the question "what do we do with the freed slaves?" The writer comments on Dr. Leavitt's contradictory views. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 | | Newspaper: | Liberator | | Title: | Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society | | Date Published: | 1862-05-16 | | Notes: | The speaker addresses the question of what to do with the slaves if they are freed. Although some people had cautioned that the slaves would be lost without slavery, the speaker offered various examples of how they would be and aleady were capable of prospering as free citizens. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Day, William Howard, d. 1900 | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Speech of W. Howard Day | | Date Published: | 1864-05-14 | | Notes: | The speaker stressed his belief that the government under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln had failed to provide for the emancipation of the slaves as they had all believed it would. He noted the countries that had freed their slaves over the past decades, and stressed the inhumanity that seemed to rule a country that refused to acknowledge the evil in this continued system. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Thirty-Second Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society | | Date Published: | 1865-05-20 | | Notes: | The speaker noted that while slavery had ended, as long as equality did not exist between the races, the work of the Anti-Slavery movement would continue. He believed that now was not the time to abandon work for civil rights and social acceptance of the newly freed slaves. |
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