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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: | Ray, Charles B. (Charles Bennett), 1807-1886 | | Date Published: | 1836-12-15 | | Notes: | Speech given at the first quarterly meeting of the United Anti-Slavery Society of New York in response to resolutions regarding the fundamental abolition goals of the organization. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1840-07-18 | | Notes: | The writer responds to a letter published in another newspaper objecting to a recent anti-slavery convention. The letter anonymously expressed the view that African American abolitionists should not hold separate conventions; that all abolitionists should work together. This editorial expresses an opposing view. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852) | | Date Published: | 1851-01-15 | | Notes: | The writer provides a list of resolutions passed during a special meeting of the Massachusetts Female Emancipation Committee meeting held in 1850. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Smith, James McCune, 1813-1865 | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Bugle | | Title: | The Anniveraries. National Council of the Colored People. | | Date Published: | 1855-05-19 | | Notes: | Speech encouraging the National Council of the Colored People to continue work on the promises they established in their previous meeting. These promises included the elevation of the race through education, political advances, and civil rights in every state. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897. | | Newspaper: | Presscopy -- New York Historical Society -- Pamphlet Collection | | Title: | World's Anti-Slavery Movement, Its Heroes and Its Triumphs. A Lecture Delivered at Xenia, O., Aug. 2, and Cleveland, O., Aug. 3, 1858 | | Date Published: | 1858 | | Notes: | The speaker traced the history of the human struggle for freedom, justice and liberty. He emphasized that the struggle for emancipation of the slaves was part of this universal, human struggle for freedom. The speaker stressed that all human beings have an innate desire to be free, and this is their birthright. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Day, William Howard, d. 1900 | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | British Abolitionists Movements. Birmingham Ladies' Negroes' Friend Society. | | Date Published: | 1861-12-02 | | Notes: | Brief overview of speech in which the speaker addressed the issue of fugitive slaves who had escaped to England. He urged these fugitives to be careful to follow British law and to be on guard for kidnappers. |
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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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