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| Speaker or Author: | Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | First Annual Meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society | | Date Published: | 1840-07-01 | | Notes: | Speech delivered in London before the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (attended by the Duke of Sussex and other dignitaries), regarding the plight of the slave in the United States. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | A Coloured American on the Colonization Society | | Date Published: | 1840-11-04 | | Notes: | Speech against the goals and ideals of the American Colonization Society. The speaker stressed that this society works against and not for the free people of color. He also addressed a secret resolution passed in Virginia in 1800 and again in 1816 that attempted to establish a colony in Louisiana for free people of color in order to remove them from Virginia. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Pennington, James W. C. | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Date Published: | 1843-06-14 | | Notes: | The speaker stressed that the people of color in the U.S. will never be reconciled to slavery, although they do express a love of this country. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Pennington, James W. C. | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | Wednesday Morning | | Date Published: | 1843-06-21 | | Notes: | Speech regarding the colonization of Africa in terms of emigration, and the continued injustices of American slavery. The speaker offered praise for the work of American abolitionists in their efforts to correct state constitutions that included wording that implied the superiority of the white population in America. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Pennington, James W. C. | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Date Published: | 1843-06-28 | | Notes: | Speech given in protest of the British idea for people to immigrate from Africa to the West Indies to work in that country. The speaker argued that this was just another form of slavery under the guise of immigration. (Speech 06979 is a duplicate of this speech.) |
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| Speaker or Author: | Pennington, James W. C. | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | Celebration of the First of August by the Birmingham Anti-Slavery Society | | Date Published: | 1843-08-09 | | Notes: | Speech given during a celebration of the August 1st anniversary of the emancipation of the British West Indies stressing the progress of the anti-slavery movements and abolition in the U. S. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Gloucester, Stephen H. | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. | | Date Published: | 1847-06-01 | | Notes: | Speech given in response to a resolution put forth for the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society to work peacefully towards the abolition of slavery. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882. | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | The Anniversary of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. | | Date Published: | 1847-07-01 | | Notes: | Speech calling for an end to slavery and asking that America join this fight for the emancipation of all slaves. He says: "The children of Africa, scattered as they were all over the world, unnationed, appealed to America for redress -- that America whose sails whiten every sea, and whose diplomatic parchment is lying in every court..." |
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| Speaker or Author: | Ward, Samuel Ringgold, b. 1817 | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | The Anniversary of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. | | Date Published: | 1847-07-01 | | Notes: | Brief speech questioning the ideas of those opposed to the anti-slavery movements, emphasizing that they had not offered a forum for debate about their opposing views. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898 | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. | | Date Published: | 1848-06-01 | | Notes: | Speech given during the annual meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society attended mostly by members of the Society of Friends. The speaker describes the progress and successes of the abolition movement throughout the world. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898 | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | Anti-Slavery Meeting at Birmingham. | | Date Published: | 1849-06-01 | | Notes: | Brief speech encouraging "free-labor produce" in Britain. The speaker explained that the slave-trade would be negatively impacted if Britain stopped purchasing slave-produced products from the U.S. He encouraged Britain to buy only "free-labor" products in order to help abolish slavery. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882 | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | Free-Labour Movement | | Date Published: | 1851-01-01 | | Notes: | Brief speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Bill. The speaker also encouraged his audience to buy "free-labor" goods instead of those produced by slave labor. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882 | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | American Slavery | | Date Published: | 1851-06-02 | | Notes: | Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Law, and focusing on the efforts of the Church in the continuation of the system of slavery. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Henson, Josiah | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | Sunday School Union | | Date Published: | 1851-06-02 | | Notes: | Speech praising the education offered to those of African descent in England, emphasizing the work of the Sunday School Union there. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882 | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society | | Date Published: | 1851-08-01 | | Notes: | Speech before a British audience condemning slavery in the U.S. The speaker pointed out the irony of the American stance on freedom when it continued to enslave millions of people. He also praised the work of British abolitionists. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Ward, Samuel Ringgold, b. 1817 | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | Anti-Slavery Meeting | | Date Published: | 1854-09-01 | | Notes: | The speaker addressed a meeting called to form a local anti-slavery society in Essex, England. He stressed that one way to end slavery was to refuse to purchase slave-labor produced goods. (Speech 15734 is a duplicate of this speech.) |
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| Speaker or Author: | Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1887? | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | Lectures on American Slavery | | Date Published: | 1859-07 | | Notes: | The speaker stressed the plight of women and children subjected to slavery in the southern states. She spoke before an English audience in London and pleaded for their assistance in the battle for emancipation in the U.S. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Campbell, Robert | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | Our Annual Meeting | | Date Published: | 1859-07-01 | | Notes: | The speaker suggested that the best way to end slavery was to cultivate cotton in Africa. He believed that if European countries could purchase cotton from Africa and refuse to buy from slaveholding countries. This would eliminate the main reason for slavery in the U.S. |
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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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