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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1837-08-19 | | Notes: | The writer relates a story of being refused a cup of tea at a temperance house. The proprietor of the house said that he didn't want to upset his customers and so he refused to serve the editor of this paper. The writer expresses his opinion of this refusal and included a letter from Thomas Van Rensselaer expressing a similar point of view. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 | | Newspaper: | Presscopy -- Dartmouth College -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets | | Title: | A Lecture Delivered Before the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem | | Date Published: | 1847 | | Notes: | Address given before the Female Anti-Slavery Society in which the speaker answered the question "what is slavery?" with emphasis placed on how slavery affects the character of the American people. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Bibb, Henry, b. 1815 | | Newspaper: | Emancipator | | Title: | American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society | | Date Published: | 1849-05-17 | | Notes: | Brief speech regarding the importance of supplying slaves with Bibles. (Speech 09773 is a duplicate of this speech.) (Includes MP3 audio file.) |
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| Speaker or Author: | Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Sketch of W. W. Brown's Lecture | | Date Published: | 1854-12-30 | | Notes: | Speech regarding the negative image the American slaveholders and pro-slavery representatives offer people in Europe who judge all Americans by those they meet. The speaker (whose father was a slaveholder and his mother a slave) stressed the irony of a country founded on freedom that still maintained the institution of slavery. |
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