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| Speaker or Author: | Williams, Ranson G. | | Newspaper: | Philanthropist | | Title: | Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Anniversary | | Date Published: | 1836-12-02 | | Notes: | Speech delievered at the first annual meeting of the Rhode Island State Anti-Slavery Society held at the Richmond Church in Providence Rhode Island addressing issues regarding the slave trade, the separation of slave families, and the relationship between slavery and Christian values. |
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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: | 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: | 1837-05-06 | | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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 | | Date Published: | 1844-08-01 | | Notes: | Speech addressing the successes and failures of the anti-slavery movements. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Ward, Samuel Ringgold, b. 1817 | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Cazenovia Anti-Slavery Convention | | Date Published: | 1847-03-11 | | Notes: | Brief speech delivered at the Cazenovia Anti-Slavery Convention stressing the political and moral aspects of the Liberty party and the Anti-Slavery Society. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 q | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Cazenovia Anti-Slavery Convention | | Date Published: | 1847-03-11 | | Notes: | Brief speech delivered at the Cazenovia Anti-Slavery Convention stressing the political and moral aspects of the Liberty party and the Anti-Slavery Society. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Ward, Samuel Ringgold, b. 1817 | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Cazenovia Anti-Slavery Convention | | Date Published: | 1847-03-18 | | Notes: | Speech delivered during the Cazenovia Anti-Slavery Convention addressing issues of government legislation that encourages discrimination in schools and churches. |
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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: | Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 | | Newspaper: | North Star | | Title: | Soiree to W. W. Brown in Newcastle | | Date Published: | 1850-02-08 | | Notes: | Speech given before a large gathering in Newcastle, England regarding the current condition of abolitionists in the U.S. The speaker notes the irony of the realization that England is the true "home of the brave and land of the free." He praises the work and help of the Quakers and abolitionists in the struggle for freedom taking place in the U.S. (Includes MP3 audio file.) |
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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: | Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 | | Newspaper: | Presscopy -- John Rylands Library -- Manchester, England -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets | | Title: | American Slavery. Report of a Meeting of Members of the Unitarian Body, Held at the Freemason's Tavern, June 13th, 1851, to Deliberate on the Duty of English Unitarians in Reference to Slavery in the United States. | | Date Published: | 1851 | | Notes: | Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Bill in the U.S., and praising the efforts of the British people in the abolition of slavery. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 | | Newspaper: | Frederick Douglass' Paper | | Date Published: | 1851-07-31 | | Notes: | Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Bill, and praising the work of the American Anti-Slavery Society in its efforts to end slavery. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898 | | Newspaper: | Liberator | | Title: | Mr. Purvis' Speech | | Date Published: | 1854-05-19 | | Notes: | Eloquent speech in which the speaker reinforced the precepts of the abolitionists' cause. He said that philanthropy would help abolition by providing the energy to express: "...I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard." |
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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: | Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1887? | | Newspaper: | Derbyshire Courier | | Title: | Slavery in America | | Date Published: | 1861-04-13 | | Notes: | Overview of a speech delivered before an English audience regarding the plight of the slave in America, a country founded on freedom. The speaker offered anecdotes from her own life and the lives of slaves to demonstrate the cruelty and inhumanity of slavery. She asked for the support of the English people in the fight for universal emancipation. |
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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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