Category Archives: Abolitionist Movement
A Call for a Convention of the Colored Citizens of the New England States
A Lecture on the Haytien Revolutions
A Letter from Sojourner Truth
A Letter to Mrs. Maria W. Chapman.
A Mother’s Grief
Abolition of slavery.
Address
American Anti-Slavery Society
American Anti-Slavery Society
American Anti-Slavery Society
American Anti-Slavery Society.: Address of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society to the Abolitionists of the United States
American Anti-Slavery Society.: Address of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society to the Abolitionists of the United States
American Anti-Slavery Society.: Address of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society to the Abolitionists of the United States
American Anti-Slavery Society.: Address of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society to the Abolitionists of the United States.
An excellent selection
Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society: Letter from Gerrit Smith. Statement of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Article 3 — No Title
Article 9 — No Title
Black List.
Brutal Outrage.
Celebration of the First of August: Speech of Rev. Daniel Foster. Speech of John S. Rock, Esq. Speech of Henry C. Wright. Speech of Rev. Mr. Ames, of Illinois. Speech of Rev. James N. Gloucester, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Speech of Rev. Samuel Green. Speech of George W. Stacy. Speech of William Wells Brown.
Correspondence between the Hon. Malcolm Cameron and the Coloured Stockholders of the Elgin Association
Extract from “The Origin …”
Farewell to New England
Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society: Selections from the Scriptures. Treasurer’s Account. The American Anti-Slavery Society in Account Current with Francis Jackson, Treasurer.
Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society: Abstract of the fifth Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass in London– Enthusiastic Reception
Frederick Douglass on President Lincoln
Frederick Douglass on the Educational Monument Association
Frederick Douglass on the Negro Exodus
From the Massachusetts Spy: To the Memory of J. Horace Kimball
Great Annual Jubilee–August 1, 1843
Great Anti-Slavery Meeting in Canada
Great Meeting in Faneuil Hall: Speeches of Samuel J. May, Frederick Douglass and Wendell Phillips. Reported for the Liberator, by F. W. Leeds, Jr., Stenographer.
Great Meeting of the Colored Citizens of Boston
Harriet Tubman
Hope for Africa
Hours of Childhood
How Frederick Douglass Got His Name
How Sojourner Truth Earned Five Dollars in Washington.
Ladies: Sojourner Truth On Women
Letter from B. P. Yates, D. B. Warner, Samuel F. McGill, B. V. R. James, Samuel Mathews, Henry W. Dennis, Urias Africanus McGill, H. A. Johnson, and Edward Wilmot Blyden to Martin Robinson Delany
Letter from Frederick Douglass
Letter from Frederick Douglass
Letter from Frederick Douglass
Letter from Frederick Douglass
Letter from Frederick Douglass
Letter from Frederick Douglass
Letter from Frederick Douglass
Letter from Harriet Tubman to Wendell Phillips
Letter from Martin Robinson Delany to B. P. Yates, D. B. Warner, Samuel F. McGill, B. V. R. James, Samuel Mathews, Henry W. Dennis, Urias Africanus McGill, H. A. Johnson, and Edward Wilmot Blyden
Letter from Thomas Garrett to William Still (1)
Letter from Thomas Garrett to William Still (2)
Letter from Wilson R. Abbott to the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonality of The City of Toronto in Common Council Assembled
Letter from Wilson R. Abbott, et. al. to William Badgley
Letter to Frederick Douglass, Editor of the “North Star,” from Henry Highland Garnet
Letter to William Still and James Miller McKim
Letters from Frederick Douglass no. II.
Letters from Frederick Douglass No. v.
Letters from Frederick Douglass. No. III
March 21, 1842
May It Please Your Worship
Meeting of Colored Citizens
Meeting of the Colored Citizens of Toronto
Memorandum of Extracts
Mr. Cameron’s Reply
My Bondage and My Freedom
Narrative of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude By the State of New York, in 1828
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave.
No Bible for the Slaves
Oberlin Rescuers: Meeting of the Colored Citizens of Boston
Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party
Past Joys
Petition to His Worship the Mayor of Toronto from Wilson R Abbott et al
Prayer
Principia of Ethnology: The Origin of Races and Color, With An Archeological Compendium of Ethiopian and Egyptian Civilization
Seventh Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society
Shameful Violation of the Rights of Man: Disgraceful Prejudice Against a Man of Color. Disgraceful Conduct Toward Frederick Douglass, the Liberated Slave.
Slavery Will Be Abolished
Sojourner Truth: Her Radical Definition of What Coercive Temperance Means. It Includes Abstinence from Tobacco and Abolition of Hanging.
Sojourner Truth: The First Steamboat. Recollections of Lafayette. The Origin of her Name. Her Religious Enthusiasm. Her Interview with Lincoln.
Sojourner Truth: Her Story as Told by Herself.
Speech of Frederick Douglass
Speech of Frederick Douglass
Speech of William Wells Brown
Speeches of Henry C. Wright– Frederick Douglass– James N. Buffum– George Thompson: The Slaveholders Money, and the Free Church.
The American Slave-Trade.
The Case of Alexander Hendrickure
The Colored Citizens of New York and the African Civilization Society: The African Colonization Society, Otherwise the African Civilization Society. Colored Men, Read! Rev. Henry Highland Garnet
The Colored Citizens of Toronto
The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, Politically Considered
The Destiny of the People of Color, a Lecture
The Early Anti-Slavery Days: No VI.
The Escape; or A Leap for Freedom: A Drama in Five Acts
The Farewell
The Grave of the Slave
The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue: An Anti-Slavery Crisis Which Almost Precipated the Civil War in 1859 through the Secession of the North Painful Death the Scene of Conflict the Underground Railroad the Capture the Rescue the Majesty of the Law the Legal Issue the Political Aspect in a Felon’s Cell Upholsters and Mattress Makers. Hogskin Saddle and Harnessmaking. Boot and Shoe Shop. ‘Negro-Catching in Boston v. Negro-Catching in Cleveland.’ Two-Score Years After
The Origin and Objects of Freemasonry, Its Introduction Into the United States, and Legitimacy Amoung Colored Men: A Treatise Delivered Before St. Cyprian Lodge, No. 13, June 24th, A.D. 1853
The Ransom: Letter to Frederick Douglass, With His Reply
The Reception at the Meionaon
The Separation
The Slave
To a Benevolent Public
To His Honor the Mayor
To His Worship the Mayor
To the Hibernia
Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society: Opening Remarks of Mr. Garrison. The Sin and Guilt of the Nation. The Cause of the Present Civil War. The Special Punishment of the South. The Duty of Immediate Emancipation. The Blessed Consequences of Emancipation. Annual Account of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Speech of William Wells Brown. Remarks of Theodore Tilton. Speech of Rev. Robert M. Hatfield. Speech of Wendell Phillips, Esq.
Walker’s Appeal No. 2
Walker’s Appeal, No. 3
News article: Advertisement for a convention to organize around rights for African Americans, 1859
James McCune Smith’s lecture on the Haitian Revolution and Toussaint L’Ouverture, 1841
News article: A religious letter from Sojourner Truth, 1881
News article: A letter written by Henry Highland Garnet, addressed to Maria Chapman, 1843
Poem written by Sarah Louisa Forten for The Liberator, 1832
American State Papers: Abolition of slavery, petitions of Quakers and Pennsylvania Society for Abolition of Slavery, 1790
News article: Address given by David Walker to the General Colored Association at Boston, 1828
Journal article: An account of the twelfth annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1845
Journal article: An account of the twenty-second annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1856
Journal article: An account of the fourteenth annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1848
News article: Address of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society to the Abolitionists of the United States., 1840
Journal article: Address of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society to the Abolitionists of the United States, 1840
Journal article: Address of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society to the Abolitionists of the United States, 1840
News article: Address of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society to the Abolitionists of the United States., 1840
News article: On Rev. Henry Highland Garnet’s appointment to Minister Resident and Consul General of the United States to Liberia., 1881
News article: Letter from Gerrit Smith. Statement of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society., 1862
An article by Henry Highland Garnet, 1863
News article: William Wells Brown on being attacked by the Ku Klux Klan, 1871
News article: On a bill that passed that prohibits the instruction of free African Americans, mulattoes, or enslaved persons, in either religious or secular knowledge. Article blames legislation on David Walker’s pamphlet., 1830
News article: A letter written by Henry Highland Garnet, sent to the Liberator, 1848
Speeches given by several speakers, including William Wells Brown, 1862
Correspondence between the Hon. Malcolm Cameron and the Coloured Stockholders of the Elgin Association, 1850
Extract from Martin Delany’s The Origin and Objects of Ancient Freemasonry manuscript, 1853
Poem written by Sarah Louisa Forten for The Pennsylvania Freeman, 1839
News article: An account of the fifteenth annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1849
News article: Abstract of the fifth Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society., 1838
Letter written by Frederick Douglass, sent to the journal The Friends’ Weekly Intelligencer, 1846
Journal Article: On Frederick Douglass purchasing his own freedom, 1847
Biography of Frederick Douglass by Booker T. Washington, 1907
Transcript of a speech given by Frederick Douglass in London, 1846
News Article: Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln, 1864
News article: Frederick Douglass on education, 1865
News article: A paper by Fred. Douglass was read before the Social Science Association, at Saratoga, on the Negro exodus from the South. The real cause of the exodus, he thinks, is bad treatment., 1879
Poem written by Sarah Louisa Forten, 1838
Newspaper article by Solomon Alexander on the celebration of the anniversary of British emancipation by the New England Freedom Association., 1843
Newspaper article written by Wilson Abbott, 1851
Transcript of a speech by Frederick Douglass on the American Colonization Society., 1849
Newspaper article by Solomon Alexander, 1835
House and Senate Reports: On Harriet Tubman’s activities as a scout and a spy., 1874
Henry Highland Garnet’s pamphlet Hope for Africa, 1860
Poem written by Sarah Louisa Forten for The Liberator, 1834
News article: Frederick Douglass on his name, 1881
News article: Personal narrative by Sojourner Truth, 1872
News article: Description of a speech given by Sojourner Truth, 1863
Letter from B. P. Yates, D. B. Warner, Samuel F. McGill, B. V. R. James, Samuel Mathews, Henry W. Dennis, Urias Africanus McGill, H. A. Johnson, and Edward Wilmot Blyden to Martin Robinson Delany, 1859
Letter written by Frederick Douglass, sent to the journal The Liberator, 1846
Letter written by Frederick Douglass, sent to the journal The Liberator, 1847
Letter written by Frederick Douglass, sent to the journal The Liberator, 1846
Letter written by Frederick Douglass, sent to the journal The Liberator, 1847
Letter written by Frederick Douglass, sent to the journal The Liberator, 1846
Letter written by Frederick Douglass, sent to the journal The Liberator, 1846
Letter written by Frederick Douglass, sent to the journal The Liberator, 1846
Manuscript letter from Harriet Tubman to Wendell Phillips, 1860
Letter from Martin Robinson Delany to B. P. Yates, D. B. Warner, Samuel F. McGill, B. V. R. James, Samuel Mathews, Henry W. Dennis, Urias Africanus McGill, H. A. Johnson, and Edward Wilmot Blyden, 1853
Excerpt from William Sill’s Book The Underground Railroad; letter from Thomas Garrett on Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad, 1860
Excerpt from William Sill’s Book The Underground Railroad; letter from Thomas Garrett on Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad, 1857
Handwritten letter from Wilson Abbott to Mayor Aldermen, 1846
Letter published in the Toronto Globe from Wilson Abbott to William Badgley, 1847
Letter to Frederick Douglass, Editor of the “North Star,” from Henry Highland Garnet, 1848
Excerpt from William Sill’s Book The Underground Railroad; letter from Thomas Garrett on Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad, 1856
Letter written by Frederick Douglass, sent to The Liberator, 1845
Letter written by Frederick Douglass, sent to The Liberator, 1846
Letter written by Frederick Douglass, sent to The Liberator, 1845
Handwritten letter from Wilson Abbott to Mayor Aldermen, 1842
Handwritten petition from Wilson Abbott to Mayor Aldermen, 1842
Newspaper article by Solomon Alexander, Robert Morris Jr, and Charles Battiste, 1845
Advertisement for the Adjourned Meeting of the Colored Citizens of Toronto, 1854
Speech by Martin Delany, 1865
Letter from Malcolm Cameron on the New School Bill, 1850
Autobiographical writing of Frederick Douglass, 1855
Journal article: Responses to Frederick Douglass’s A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave., 1846
Narrative of Sojourner Truth’s life, 1850
Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, 1883
News article: On the American Bible Society refusing donations to make Bibles for African Americans, 1855
News article: Meeting minutes of the Oberlin Rescuers, 1859
Report on Niger Valley for the purposes of potential African Colonization, 1861
Poem written by Sarah Louisa Forten for The Liberator, 1831
Handwritten petition from Wilson Abbott to Mayor Aldermen, 1841
Poem written by Sarah Louisa Forten for The Liberator, 1831
Book by Martin Delany, 1879
Pamphlet report by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1840
News article: Frederick Douglass, a gentleman, (and if Christian conduct, manly honesty, and cultivated intellect, combine to form a gentleman, he is eminently worthy to so designated,) has been refused by Englishmen as passage on bord a steam-ship bound to his native land, because his skin is not white–because he was once a slave., 1847
Poem written by Sarah Louisa Forten for The Pennsylvania Freeman, 1839
News article: Speech given by Sojourner Truth for the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 1881
News article: Interview with Sojourner Truth, 1879
News article: Speech given by Sojourner Truth at the Emancipation Celebration, 1871
Speech given by Frederick Douglass at the anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1853
Speech given by Frederick Douglass delivered at a Mass Meeting held at National Hall, Philadelphia, July 6, 1863, for the promotion of Colored Enlistments., 1863
Speech by William Wells Brown, delivered at the New England Anti-Slavery Convention, 1862
Transcript of a speech by Frederick Douglass on slavery and abolition., 1846
News article: William Wells Brown on the American slave trade, 1848
Article by Martin Delany for the Anti-Slavery Bugle, 1853
News article: A discussion and vote on the African Colonization Society, 1860
Newspaper article on Wilson Abbott and the Colored Citizens of Toronto, 1854
Monograph by Martin Delany that argues that African Americans should start a new nation elsewhere, outside of the U.S., 1852
James McCune Smith’s lecture on the Destiny of the People of Color, 1841
News article: Response to David Walker’s Appeal, 1874
A play by William Wells Brown: The Escape, 1858
Poem written by Sarah Louisa Forten for The Liberator, 1832
Poem written by Sarah Louisa Forten for The Liberator, 1831
News article: On the Oberlin Rescue, 1896
Book by Martin Delany, 1853
News article: On Frederick Douglass purchasing his own freedom, 1847
Speech given by William Wells Brown at the reception of the Meionaon, 1854
Poem written by Sarah Louisa Forten for The Liberator, 1833
Poem written by Sarah Louisa Forten for The Liberator, 1831
Newspaper article by Solomon Alexander, requesting aid for the building of a church, 1841
Handwritten petition from Wilson Abbott to Mayor Aldermen, 1843
Handwritten letter from Wilson Abbott to the Mayor, 1840
Poem written by Sarah Louisa Forten for The Liberator, 1833
News article: An account of the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1862
News article: William Lloyd Garrison’s response to David Walker’s Appeal, 1831
News article: William Lloyd Garrison’s response to David Walker’s Appeal, 1931