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| Speaker or Author: | Bell, Philip A. | | Newspaper: | Emancipator | | Title: | Meeting of the United Anti-Slavery Society of New-York | | Date Published: | 1836-12-15 | | Notes: | Speech before the first quarterly meeting of the United Anti-Slavery Society of New York which presented resolutions regarding the fundamental abolition goals of the organization. Also stress was placed on the importance of the Liberator newspaper. (Includes MP3 audio file.) |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1837-10-21 | | Notes: | The writer encourages his readers to attend a fair that is being presented in an effort to raise funds for a local church. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1837-11-11 | | Notes: | Although the Colored American newspaper is now out of debt, the editor will be traveling to Philadelphia to speak on its behalf and encourage further investment in order to sustain it. Donations are always appreciated and put to good use. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Cornish, Samuel E. | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1837-12-16 | | Notes: | The editor asks his readers to help compensate him for his work at the newspaper. He asks that each subscriber send at least $5 each to help supplement his salary. He explains that as it is now, his salary is nowhere near what other editors are paid. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1838-10-27 | | Notes: | The writer encourages his readers and asks them to keep up their efforts toward self-improvement. He also asks for financial support of "agents" who are traveling to Canada for missionary work and assistance to those African Americans who have settled there. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1838-11-10 | | Notes: | The Vigilance Committee makes a plea to the readers of the Colored American for their help in collecting money to pay legal fees so that they can continue their work. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1838-11-17 | | Notes: | The editor asks his readers for donations to help pay legal feels incurred by the New York Vigilance Committee in a libel suit. If substantial funds are not raised by December, the printer's property will be confiscated. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Pennington, James W. C. | | Newspaper: | NonConformist | | Title: | Complete Suffrage Soiree in Finsbury | | Date Published: | 1843-06-28 | | Notes: | Speech given in England before a fund raising suffrage meeting emphasizing that distinguishing between black and white skin color was an "insult to common sense." |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852) | | Date Published: | 1852-01-15 | | Notes: | The writer comments on the upcoming speaking engagement of Lajos Kossuth. He tells his readers that Kossuth is trying to raise money for ammunition which seems to contradict the cause of freedom and life that the slaves are fighting for. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Ward, Samuel Ringgold, b. 1817 | | Newspaper: | Frederick Douglass' Paper | | Title: | Escaped Slaves from the "Land of Freedom" | | Date Published: | 1853-11-18 | | Notes: | Speech regarding the irony of slavery in a country that is founded on freedom and liberty. The speaker asked for donations to support the fugitive slaves who were living in Canada. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Ward, Samuel Ringgold, b. 1817 | | Newspaper: | NonConformist | | Title: | Fugitive Slaves. Public Meeting at Crosby Hall. | | Date Published: | 1855-03-22 | | Notes: | Overview of speech regarding the speakers experiences as a fugitive slave in Canada. The speech helped raise money for the care of other fugitive slaves living in Canada. |
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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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| Speaker or Author: | Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1887? | | Newspaper: | Liberator | | Title: | Miss Remond's Anti-Slavery Lecture | | Date Published: | 1859-03-11 | | Notes: | Speech delivered before an audience in Dublin, Ireland, on the condition of those enslaved in the U.S. The speaker stressed the plight of women living in slavery; and the continued cruelty and injustice suffered by each slave. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1887? | | Newspaper: | Liberator | | Title: | Miss Remond's Anti-Slavery Lecture | | Date Published: | 1859-03-11 | | Notes: | Speech given before an audience in Dublin addressed the issue of slavery in the U.S. and called on Great Britain to aid in the effort to abolish it. The speaker focused on the plight of women caught up in this system. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1887? | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Advocate | | Title: | Miss Remond's First Lecture in Dublin | | Date Published: | 1859-04 | | Notes: | Speech given before an audience in Dublin, Ireland, addressed the issue of slavery in the U.S. and called on Great Britain to aid in the effort to abolish it. The speaker focused on the plight of women caught up in this system. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862) | | Date Published: | 1860-04-07 | | Notes: | Overview of a recent fair presented by the Colored Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn, New York. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862) | | Date Published: | 1860-11-24 | | Notes: | The writer tells his readers that a benefit festival will be held to raise money to retain a much needed school teacher. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Kinnard, T. M. (Thomas M.) | | Newspaper: | Pine and Palm | | Title: | Anderson in London | | Date Published: | 1861-07-13 | | Notes: | Speech held to raise funds to benefit John Anderson, a fugitive slave who had recently arrived in London from Canada. The speaker asked his listeners to donate money to erect a church and school for African Americans, and to help the fugitive slave in his care. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Green, Samuel, Rev. | | Newspaper: | Liberator | | Title: | Speech of Rev. Samuel Green | | Date Published: | 1862-08-15 | | Notes: | Brief overview of an anecdotal speech regarding one man's experience with slavery. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Elevator (1865 - 18??) | | Date Published: | 1865-05-05 | | Notes: | The writer gives a review of a recent concert given to benefit a local church. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Elevator (1865 - 18??) | | Date Published: | 1865-05-12 | | Notes: | The writer comments on a copy of the Pennsylvania Freedmen's Journal he recently received. He also alerts his readers to a fundraiser being organized to help newly freed slaves. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882 | | Newspaper: | Christian Recorder (1852 - 1856) | | Title: | Rev. H. H. Garnet in Louisville, Kentucky | | Date Published: | 1865-09-30 | | Notes: | Brief overview of speech given to eulogize Abraham Lincoln and collect money to benefit the church. |
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