Ministers Against Slavery
February 12. 1847 A statement against Slavery, signed with the names of 153 Baptist Ministers in Maine. The post Ministers Against Slavery appeared first on The Liberator Files.
View ArticleEnfranchisement of Women
January 29, 1847 Here is a long article, under the title above, with no designation of source, except that reference is made to New York state. It concludes: “I fain would hope that, when next the...
View ArticleGreat Fire in Boston – One Hundred Buildings Destroyed!
January 29, 1847 “About half past l0 o’clock, on the night of the 21s instant, a fire broke out in a bowling alley; known as the ‘Neptune Saloon’, on Haverhill Street.”… A description of the blaze and...
View ArticleRights of Women – The Homestead Inalienable
January 22, 1847 “The following is an Article in the Constitution of Wisconsin, which guarantees to every wife her own property, and to every family a home, beyond the power of alienation by a drunken...
View ArticleThe Ransom of Douglass
January 15, 1847 Tells of how, soon after his arrival in England there were people intent on effecting legal emancipation of Douglass, “provided his ransom could be effected at a fair market value.”...
View ArticleBrutality to Women
January 8, 1847 From the N.Y. Eve Post “Persons who have never visited our prisons and police offices, can form no adequate idea of the suffering endured by many of the weaker sex who reside in this...
View ArticleModern Infidelity, Alias Come-Outism
January 8, 1847 Here is an article from the Pittsburgh Christian Advocate, signed, “W.W.M.”, in which the idea of “come-outism” is derided. “This is expressive of a class persons, who come out from...
View ArticleA slave of George Washington
January 1, 1847 Benjamin Chase, writes to Garrison, from Auburn, N.H. She now resides in Greenland, N.H., with a colored woman. The slave was married to a Mr. Staines, and uses that name. The post A...
View ArticleFamine in Ireland
January 1, 1847 A letter to Garrison, from Edward Search, in London. “Our English government and the Irish people are both at this time reaping the bad fruit arising from the love of rule in our...
View ArticleNathaniel P. Rogers, death of
January 1, 1847 A letter, signed by Richard D.Webb, recounts the story of Rogers’ friendship with and then alienation from Garrison; the letter is addressed to “Dear Friend”, probably Maria W. Chapman....
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