| Speaker or Author: | Pennington, James W. C. | | Newspaper: | Presscopy -- Yale University -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets | | Title: | An Address Delivered at Newark, N.J. at the First Anniversary of West India Emancipation | | Date Published: | 1839 | | Notes: | Speech commemorating the anniversary of the emancipation of the British West Indies on August 1, 1834. The speaker stressed the horrors of the slave trade and the importance of immediate emancipation in the U.S. He also emphasized his disagreement with the idea of colonization. |
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