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....
View ArticleGarrison ill
September 24, 1847 Notice that Garrison had been detained in Cleveland because of illness, but indicates that his convalescence proceeds, and that he will begin homeward journeys in another week. His...
View ArticleGarrison’s health
October 15, 1847 Here is a note that Garrison has been very ill, but is now considered “out of danger”; his homeward journey will be postponed until next month. The post Garrison’s health appeared...
View ArticleJonathan Walker and 66 emancipated slaves in Boston
October 15, 1847 In a letter Walker refers to 66 slaves, emancipated by the will of Carter H. Edloe, deceased, of Virginia. They have been brought to Boston on a ship commanded by a Capt. Wixon. They...
View ArticleGeorge Thompson elected to Parliament
October 22, 1847 Here is notice of Thompson’s election to Parliament, with 3000 more votes than his opponent. The post George Thompson elected to Parliament appeared first on The Liberator Files.
View ArticleNational Anti-Slavery Bazaar
October 22, 1847 An announcement of the 14th bazaar, to be held during Christmas and New Year’s Week, in Boston. Signed by thirty-one women”, it assures that contributions will be “spent in...
View ArticleHenry Wright to Elizabeth Pease, about Garrison
October 29, 1847 Henry Wright describes at length the poor health of Garrison, after visiting him in Cleveland. “You will see little from his pen in the Liberator for some time.” Wright also says...
View ArticleDanish Abolition of Slavery
November 19, 1847 Notice that a Royal Decree has been issued “proclaiming the abolition of slavery in the Danish colonies”, by King Christian. “All slaves under sixteen years of age, are declared...
View ArticleAnti-Slavery Sewing Circles
December 3, 1847 “This is the season when Sewing Circles should flourish most ….Sewing Circles are among the best means for agitating and keeping alive the question of anti-slavery. …. Some one of the...
View ArticleLucretia Mott
December 3, 1847 From the Baltimore Cor. of Era. is an article telling of her seventy day trip, away from her home in Philadelphia, during which she has traveled at least twenty-four hundred miles,...
View ArticleHorace Mann and Colored Schools
December 24, 1847 An article critical of Mann, who, it claims, has not given aid to the campaign for equal school rights for colored children. He has not helped either in Nantucket or in Boston, to...
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