The Black Abolitionist Papers

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Description

This five-volume documentary collection--culled from an international archival search that turned up over 14,000 letters, speeches, pamphlets, essays, and newspaper editorials--reveals how black abolitionists represented the core of the antislavery movement. While the first two volumes consider black abolitionists in the British Isles and Canada (the home of some 60,000 black Americans on the eve of the Civil War), the remaining volumes examine the activities and opinions of black abolitionists in the United States from 1830 until the end of the Civil War. In particular, these volumes focus on their reactions to African colonization and the idea of gradual emancipation, the Fugitive Slave Law, and the promise brought by emancipation during the war.

Sujets

• 19th Century
• Modern
• Histoire
• Canadá
• Fugitive slave laws
• British Isles
• Canada
• Civil War
• History

Informations

• Publié par: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date de parution: 09 novembre 2000
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798890866462
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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The Black Abolitionist Papers

Board of Editorial Advisors

Irving H. Bartlett John W. Blassingame E. David Cronon Helen G. Edmonds Lawrence J. Friedman William R. Jones Leon F. Litwack William H. Pease Lewis Perry Dorothy B. Porter Benjamin Quarles Joe M. Richardson George Shepperson James Morton Smith Howard Temperley Earl E. Thorpe Charles Wiltse Robin Winks Esmond Wright

The Black Abolitionist Papers

V O L U M E I The British Isles, 1830–1865

C. Peter Ripley,Editor Jeffery S. Rossbach,Associate Editor Roy E. Finkenbine,Assistant Editor Fiona E. Spiers,Assistant Editor Debra Susie,Research Associate

The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London

© 1985 The University of North Carolina Press

All rights reserved

Manufactured in the United States of America

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title:

The Black abolitionist papers.

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Contents: v. 1. The British Isles, 1830–1865. Includes index. 1. Slavery—United States—Antislavery movements. 2. Abolitionists—United States—History—19th century— Sources. 3. Abolitionists—History—19th century— Sources. 4. AfroAmericans—History—To 1863—Sources. I. Ripley, C. Peter, 1941 . E449.B624 1985 973'.0496 8413131 ISBN 0807816256 (v.1)

This volume was designed by the editors.

The preparation of this volume was made possible in part by a grant from the Program for Editions of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency, and by grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, The Florida State University, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Atlantic Richfield Foundation, and the Wausau In surance Company.

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Illustrations xv

Acknowledgments xvii

Abbreviations xix

Editorial Statement xxv

Introduction 3

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Nathaniel Paul to William Lloyd Garrison, 10 April 1833 Speech by Nathaniel Paul, Delivered at Exeter Hall, London, England, 13 July 1833 Speech by Nathaniel Paul, Delivered at the Trades’ Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, 2 December 1834

4. Speeches by Moses Roper, Delivered at Baptist Chapel, Devonshire Square, 26 May 1836, and at Finsbury Chapel, London, England, 30 May 1836 5. Remarks by James McCune Smith, Delivered at a Meeting of the Glasgow Emancipation Society, Glasgow, Scotland, 15 March 1837 6. John Murray and William Smeal to James McCune Smith, 15 June 1837 7. Charles Lenox Remond to Charles B. Ray, 30 June 1840 8. Charles Lenox Remond to William Lloyd Garrison, [October 1840] 9. Charles Lenox Remond to Richard Allen, 7 January 1841 10. Charles Lenox Remond to William Lloyd Garrison, 7 March 1841 11. Charles Lenox Remond to Nathaniel P. Rogers, 2 October 1841

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12. Charles Lenox Remond to Richard Allen, 19 November 1841 13. Speech by J. W. C. Pennington, Delivered at Freemasons’ Hall, London, England, 14 June 1843 14. Speech by J. W. C. Pennington, Delivered at Exeter Hall, London, England, 21 June 1843 15. Moses Roper to the Committee of the British and Foreign AntiSlavery Society, 9 May 1844 16. M. M. Clark to Editor, LondonPatriot,9 October 1846 17. Alexander Crummell to John Jay, 9 August 1848 18. Remarks of Alexander Crummell, Delivered at the Hall of Commerce, London, England, 21 May 1849 19. William Wells Brown to Elizabeth Pease, 30 July 1849 20. Speeches by William Wells Brown and J. W. C. Pennington, Delivered at Salle de la Sainte Cecile, Paris, France, 24 August 1849 21. William Wells Brown to William Allen, 2 September 1849 22. Speech by William Wells Brown, Delivered at the Lecture Hall, Croydon, England, 5 September 1849

23. Speech by William Wells Brown, Delivered at the Concert Rooms, Store Street, London, England, 27 September 1849 24. J. W. C. Pennington to Editor,British Banner,4 January 1850 25. Speech by J. W. C. Pennington, Delivered at Merchants Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, 12 June 1850 26.A Description of William Wells Brown’s Original Panoramic Views of the Scenes in the Life of an American Slave, from His Birth in Slavery to His Death or His Escape to His First Home of Freedom on British Soil 27. Henry Highland Garnet to Samuel Ringgold Ward, 4 September 1850 28. J. W. C. Pennington to Editor,Christian News, 6 September 1850 29. Henry Highland Garnet to Samuel Rhoads, 5 December 1850

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30. William P. Powell to Sydney Howard Gay, 12 December 1850 234 31. William Wells Brown to Frederick Douglass, 20 December 1850 239 32. Speech by William Craft, Delivered at the Nicolson Street Church, Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 December 1850 246 33. William Wells Brown to Wendell Phillips, 31 January 1851 250 34. William P. Powell to Sydney Howard Gay, 23 March 1851 252 35. William P. Powell to Mary Ann Duval, 25 March 1851 255 36. Speech by John Brown, Delivered at the Guildhall, Plymouth, England, 9 April 1851 259 37. Francis S. Anderson to William Lloyd Garrison, 21 April 1851 268 38. Speech by William Craft, Delivered at the Plymouth Theatre, Plymouth, England, 30 April 1851 271 39. Speech by Alexander Crummell, Delivered at Freemasons’ Hall, London, England, 19 May 1851 276 40. William Wells Brown to Editor, LondonTimes,3 July 1851 283 41. Speech by William Wells Brown, Delivered at the Hall of Commerce, London, England, 1 August 1851 285 42. An Appeal to the People of Great Britain and the World, Presented by Alexander Duval at the Hall of Commerce, London, England, 1 August 1851 290 43. J. C. A. Smith to Gerrit Smith, 6 August 1851 293 44. William Wells Brown to Frederick Douglass, 10 September 1851 302 45. Alexander Crummell to John Jay, 22 March 1852 308 46. William Wells Brown to Editor, LondonMorning Advertiser,15 May 1852 312 47. William Craft to Editor, LondonMorning Advertiser,[September 1852] 316 48. Henry Highland Garnet and the Weims Family Purchase: Charles B. Ray to Henry Highland Garnet, 27 September 1852; Note by Henry Highland Garnet, 16 October 1852 327

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49. Ellen Craft to Editor,AntiSlavery Advocate,26 October 1852 50. Speech by Edmund Kelly, Delivered at Baptist Chapel, Dublin, Ireland, 7 April 1853 51. Speech by Samuel Ringgold Ward, Delivered at the Poultry Chapel, London, England, 9 May 1853 52. Speech by Samuel Ringgold Ward, Delivered at Exeter Hall, London, England, 16 May 1853 53. William Wells Brown to William Lloyd Garrison, 17 May 1853 54. Speech by Alexander Crummell, Delivered at the Lower Hall, Exeter Hall, London, England, 26 May 1853 55. William G. Allen to William Lloyd Garrison, 20 June 1853 56. Speech by Samuel Ringgold Ward, Delivered at Freemasons’ Hall, London, England, 21 June 1853 57. Speech by William G. Allen, Delivered at the Stock Exchange, Leeds, England, 29 November 1853 58. Speech by William G. Allen, Delivered at the Stock Exchange, Leeds, England, 1 December 1853 59. William G. Allen to Charles Sumner, 24 January 1854 60. J. C. A. Smith to Editor,AntiSlavery Reporter,13 March 1854 61. Samuel Ringgold Ward to Louis Alexis Chamerovzow, 1 April 1854 62. Samuel Ringgold Ward to Editor,British Banner,12 April 1854 63. Samuel Ringgold Ward to the Readers of theProvincial Freeman,27 April 1854 64. James Watkins to Editor,Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 18 May 1854 65. Speech by William Wells Brown, Delivered at the Town Hall, Manchester, England, 1 August 1854 66. Henry Highland Garnet to Louis Alexis Chamerovzow, 2 October 1854

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