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| Speaker or Author: | Williams, Rev. Peter | | Newspaper: | Presscopy -- New York Public Library -- Schomburg Collection | | Title: | Discourse Delivered in St. Philip's Church, for the Benefit of the Coloured Community of Wilberforce, in Upper Canada. | | Date Published: | 1830 | | Notes: | Speech given for the benefit of the "coloured community of Wilberforce" in Upper Canada. Speech addresses efforts of the Colonization Society to relocate free people of color to Africa and Hayti. (Speech 00793 is duplicate of this speech) |
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| Speaker or Author: | Nickens, Owen B. | | Newspaper: | Liberator | | Title: | Celebration in Cincinnati | | Date Published: | 1831-07-30 | | Notes: | Report from Liberator newspaper describes a speech given during celebration activities on the anniversary of the emancipation of slavery in New York state. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Title: | Freedom's Journal (June 8, 1827) | | Date Published: | 1837-05-13 | | Notes: | The editor includes an excerpt from an 1827 issue of the Freedom's Journal to prove that the majority of African Americans have never agreed with the idea of colonization. Colonization presented some grand ideas and goals, but the decesdants of slaves born in the U.S. have only considered the U.S. their home. The majority of African Americans are committed to the belief that equality and racial harmony are reasonable and achievable goals in this country. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852) | | Date Published: | 1851-01-15 | | Notes: | The writer comments on the irony of a system of slavery existing in the U.S., a country established on the ideas of freedom and liberty. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859) | | Date Published: | 1856-03-08 | | Notes: | The editor draws similarities between the recent war in Russia and the human "war" with slavery. He suggests too that if Great Britain is inclined to go to war with the United States it should begin at once. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Gordon, Robert | | Newspaper: | Presscopy -- Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets | | Title: | A sermon preached on the morning of the first of August: by a black clergyman, the Rev. Robert Gordon, in St. Paul Cathedral, London, Canada West on the occasion of the celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the West Indies emancipation, by the coloured citizens of London, and several other places. | | Date Published: | 1859 | | Notes: | Sermon delivered in London to celebrate the August 1st anniversary of the emancipation of the British West Indies. The speaker gave a history of slavery in the U.S., compared this with the enslaving of the Jews in the Biblical era, and praised Great Britain for its progressive stance on abolishing slavery. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 | | Newspaper: | Liberator | | Title: | Speech of William Wells Brown. Delivered at the New England Anti-Slavery Convention, Wednesday, May 28th, 1862. | | Date Published: | 1862-06-13 | | Notes: | The speaker addressed the issue of the competence and intellectual abilities of African Americans. He offered a rebuttal on the idea that freed slaves would be unable to take care of themselves. He emphasized a historical perspective on the intellectual ability of the Negro race to not only survive but to prosper independent of European influence. |
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