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: 9798890866479
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 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 Philip Morgan William H. Pease Lewis Perry Dorothy B. Porter Benjamin Quarles Joe M. Richardson George Shepperson James Morton Smith Jerome Stern Howard Temperley Earl E. Thorpe Robin Winks Esmond Wright

The Black Abolitionist Papers

V O L U M E I I Canada, 1830–1865

C.Peter Ripley,Editor Roy E. Finkenbine,Associate Editor Paul A. Cimbala,Assistant Editor Michael F. Hembree,Research Associate Mary Alice Herrle,Research Associate Debra Susie,Research Associate

The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London

© 1986 The University of North Carolina Press

All rights reserved

Manufactured in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data (Revised for vol. 2) Main entry under title:

The Black abolitionist papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: v. 1—The British Isles, 1830–1865—v. 2— Canada, 1830–1865. 1. Slavery—United States—Antislavery movements— Sources. 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) ISBN 0807816981 (v. 2)

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, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

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Illustrations xiii

Maps xiv

Acknowledgments xv

Abbreviations xvii

Editorial Statement xxiii

Introduction 3

Documents

Austin Steward and Benjamin Paul to John G. Stewart, [August 1831] The Israel Lewis Controversy: Israel Lewis to the Public, 26 January 1833; The Wilberforce Board of Managers to William Lloyd Garrison, 12 March 1833 Austin Steward to Joseph Tallcot, 2 December 1836 John Roberts to Richard C. Stockton, 8 July 1837 Proceedings of a Meeting of Toronto Blacks, Convened at the Residence of William Osborne, 203 King Street, Toronto, Upper Canada, 13 January 1838

6. Jehu Jones to Charles B. Ray, 8 August 1839 7. Nelson Hackett to Lord Sydenham, 18 September 1841 8. Peter Gallego to Thomas Rolph, 1 November 1841 9. Speech by Josiah Jones, Delivered at the Militia Parade Grounds, Chatham, Canada West, 4 August 1842 10. “The Coloured People of Hamilton” to Charles T. Metcalfe, 15 October 1843 11. Circular by Henry Gouins, 22 December 1843 12. Speech by Lewis Richardson, Delivered at Union Chapel, Amherstburg, Canada West, 13 March 1846

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13. Josiah Henson to George E. Ellis, 16 March 1846 14. Mary E. Bibb to [Gerrit Smith], 8 November 1850 15. Henry Bibb to the Executive Committee of the American Missionary Association, 14 December 1850, 14 April 1851 16. Editorial by Henry Bibb, 15 January 1851 17. Henry Bibb “To Our Old Masters,” JanuaryFebruary 1851

18. Editorial by Henry Bibb, 26 February 1851 19. Thomas H. Jones to Daniel Foster, 5 May 1851 20. Editorial by Henry Bibb, 21 May 1851 21. James Theodore Holly to Henry Bibb, May 1851 22. Editorial by Henry Bibb, 18 June 1851 23. Proceedings of the North American Convention, Convened at St. Lawrence Hall, Toronto, Canada West, 11 – 13 September 1851 24. Address by Henry Bibb, John T. Fisher, and James D. Tinsley, [September 1851] 25. Samuel Ringgold Ward to Henry Bibb, 16 October 1851 26. Samuel Ringgold Ward to Henry Bibb, 6 November 1851 27. Mary Ann Shadd Cary to George Whipple, 27 November 1851 28. Jermain Wesley Loguen to Washington Hunt, 2 December 1851 29. Editorial by Henry Bibb, 3 December 1851 30. Henry Bibb to William Still, 15 January 1852 31. Constitution and Bylaws of the Refugee Home Society, 29 January 1852 32. Thomas H. Jones to Daniel Foster, 15 July 1852 33. Samuel Ringgold Ward to George Brown, 27 July 1852 34. Henry Bibb to Albert G. Sibley, 23 September 1852, 7 October 1852

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35. Constitution of the AntiSlavery Society of Windsor, 18 October 1852 36. Samuel Ringgold Ward and Canadian Racism: Samuel Ringgold Ward to Henry Bibb and James Theodore Holly, October 1852; Editorial by Samuel Ringgold Ward, 24 March 1853 37. Samuel Ringgold Ward to Benjamin Coates, [October 1852] 38. Dennis Hill to Egerton Ryerson, 22 November 1852 39. Mary Ann Shadd Cary to George Whipple, 28 December 1852 40. Report by Samuel Ringgold Ward, 24 March 1853 41. Founding the Provincial Freeman: Editorial by Samuel Ringgold Ward, 24 March 1853; Resolutions by a Meeting of Sandwich Blacks, Sandwich, Canada West, 26 March 1853 42. Report of the Committee on Emigration of the Amherstburg Convention, Presented at the First Baptist Church, Amherstburg, Canada West, 17 June 1853 43. Mary Jane Robinson to Sarah Ann Harris, 23 March 1854 44. Editorials by Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 25 March 1854, 27 May 1854 45. Editorial by Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 3 June 1854 46. Address to the Queen, Presented by George Dupont Wells at the Government Grounds, Toronto, Canada West, 1 August 1854 47. Proceedings of a Meeting of St. Catharines Blacks, Convened at the North Street Methodist Church, St. Catharines, Canada West, 4 August 1854 48. Report of the Business Committee of a Meeting of Toronto Blacks, Presented at the Sayer Street African Methodist Episcopal Church, Toronto, Canada West, 25 September 1854 49. Officers of the True Band Society of Amherstburg to Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 13 March 1855

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50. John W. Lewis to Frederick Douglass, 20 March 1855 51. James C. Brown to the Dawn Investigating Committee, 12 April 1855 52. Resolutions by a Meeting of Chatham Blacks, Convened at the First Baptist Church, Chatham, Canada West, 23 June 1855 53. Editorial by William P. Newman, 22 September 1855 54. Editorial by William P. Newman, 10 November 1855 55. Editorial by William P. Newman, 17 November 1855 56. Report of a Committee Appointed to Consider Henry Garrett’s Compensated Emancipation Plan, Chatham, Canada West, 20 November 1855 57. Editorial by H. Ford Douglas, 17 May 1856 58. Editorial by Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 5 July 1856 59. Editorial by Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 26 July 1856 60. Robert Jones to William Still, 9 August 1856 61. Editorial by Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 6 December 1856 62. Editorial by Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 6 December 1856 63. James T. Rapier to John H. Rapier, Jr., 27 January 1857 64. Editorial by Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 31 January 1857 65. Resolutions by L. G. Spears, Delivered at the First Baptist Church, Amherstburg, Canada West, 21 February 1857 66. Circular by Mary Ann Shadd Cary, H. Ford Douglas, and Isaac D. Shadd, February 1857 67. Editorial by Isaac D. Shadd, 4 April 1857 68. William Fisher to Isaac D. Shadd, 18 May 1857 69. Editorial Correspondence by Isaac D. Shadd, 12 June 1857 70. Resolutions by a Committee of Toronto Blacks, Presented by Alexander T. Augusta, Toronto, Canada West, June 1857 71. Elizabeth J. Williams to Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 18 January 1858 72. Sermon by Mary Ann Shadd Cary, [6 April 1858]

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