Foreign Slave Trade
This is the report of a Special Joint Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, urging that the subject of the slave trade is deserving of immediate attention of the national government. The post...
View ArticleColored Orphan Asylum & Primus Hall
The minutes and resolutions from a meeting chaired by Hall, are in support of the Samaritan Asylum for indigent colored orphans. The meeting was in the Belknap Street School room. Does not indicate...
View ArticleMocking women of Lynn
Under Refuge of Oppression, there is a copy of a Petition presented to the Massachusetts General Court, in which a large number of men from Lynn, mock the recent attempt by women to secure passage of a...
View ArticleBostonian seized as a runaway slave
Notice that a Baltimore paper contains notice that a colored man named John Thomas, who says he is free, and who was born and brought up in Boston, has been committed to jail in that city as a runaway...
View ArticleNotice of establishment of The Massachusetts Abolitionist
Here is an ad for the new paper, published in the city by George Russell, for an Association of Abolitionists. It is expected that Elizur Wright, Jr. Esq, now one of the secretaries of the American...
View ArticleAnti-Liberator from the South
Under Refuge of Oppression , and labeled, Polite Letters from the South, one letter, from Somerton, VA, tells the Editor: “You can remain in Boston, and preach your doctrines, but coward-like, afraid...
View ArticleSabbath School for Colored People, Louisville, Kentucky
A letter to Garrison, comes from I. Boutwell, of the Theological Seminary, Andover, dated Dec. 31, 1838. It tells of an African Sabbath School, started in 1832, by a Miss Bliss, from Boston. Held...
View ArticleInterracial Marriage
Under Refuge of Oppression, there is “from the Hampshire Republican” , no state designated, an article with reference to seven hundred and thirty-five females in Lynn, have petitioned the Legislature...
View ArticleAbolition and Universalism
This Dec 10, 1838 letter is addressed to Garrison, signed simply “A Universalist Abolitionist”. The tone is a sarcastic question, wondering if there is a Universalist periodical which consistently...
View ArticleGag order in Congress & Caleb Cushing
A long accounting “To the People of Massachusetts”, from Cushing, telling of the gag-order regarding the anti-slavery petitions in Congress, dated Dec 22,1838, from Washington. The post Gag order in...
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