Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive

Text of seven debates and other speeches, indexed.

According to the author, Dodge was the first “American” (white?) child born (1782) in the area that later became the state of Indiana. He had 19 public service commissions from 1806 to 1846, including many years of military service up to the rank of Colonel, capped by three 3-year appointments as Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin. This short, admiring biography contains highlights of Dodge’s career, a fairly extensive description of the Black Hawk War, and copies of letters from participants in that war describing key actions.

Benjamin Moseley (1742-1819) was an English doctor who left England and spent eighteen years working in Kingston, Jamaica. His time there coincided with the massive expansion of sugar production on the island. Drawing on his own experience as well as an extensive range of classical and contemporary published sources, Moseley presents a lively history of the cultivation and use of sugar cane. The work, first published in 1799 and expanded in this second edition in 1800, discusses the origins of the plant and its later cultivation and development in the Americas, as well as the popularity of refined sugar. Special attention is devoted to the plant's medicinal uses. Moseley also became known for his outspoken opposition to the growing practice of vaccination, and he uses a medical essay in the appendix of this book to launch an attack on the effectiveness of cowpox in inoculations.

On attaining a pure and successful republic. Reference is made to the case of Anthony Burns, fugitive slave.

Dated at end: May 9, 1861

"1 woodcut from a daguerreotype of Walker's hand inset into title page. 1 steel engraving of Walker, by J. Andrews, both [produced] by Southworth and Hawes Studio, Boston. ... early example of a daguerreotype used to comment journalistically and now seen as graphically striking as well. Southworth and Hawes were later to work enthusiastically with engravers and created a special lens for such work."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 10

A letter to Mr. Hay, presenting a "few facts" connected with the costs of "those attempts which Great Britain is, and has long been making to introduce knowledge, civilization and industry into the western shores of Africa", notably the colony of Sierra Leone, noting the failure of those attempts and suggesting a new course of action.

As a result of the Kansas/Nebraska Act 1857. Kansas was a territory but the slavery status was not concluded. The situation called "Bleeding Kansas" emerged. Proslavery "border ruffians" from Missouri were entering the territory, attempting to "pack" the territory with proslavery citizens. Two territorial governments emerged. One proslavery the other anti-slavery. Presidents Pierce and Buchanan admin's. recognized the Pro-slavery government. This government had been elected fraudently, with proslavery legislators, and the illegals from Missouri. The Federal government knew the Territorial Gov. was fraudulent but chose to do nothing. Slavery was the issue. Senator Stephen Douglas argued for "popular soveriegnty" in territories. The population would decide the slavery status. Republicans (Lincoln's Party) opposed the territorial constitution, and even Douglas (Democrat) broke from his party on the constitution. So why were they so opposed to the Lecompton Constitution? For Douglas it would make his popular soveriegnty position meaningless. He opposed it not in the test of freedom, but in his political position of popular soveriegnty. Republicans general position was that there should be no further extension of slavery into new territories; slavery was a moral wrong. Douglas was in a curious manner in agreement with the Republicans. Here is why they opposed the constitution: The pro-slavery legislature allowed the people of Kansas territory to vote on one single clause...to allow slavery or not in the territory. But, on all other clauses/items of the constitution, inclusive of a clause that guaranteed all the property rights of slaveholders which already were in Kansas.......would simply go into effect without popular scrutiny or approval. The constitution emerged from effects of the Dred Scott, Supreme Court decisions, the de facto repeal of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the illegal movement of pro-slavers from Missouri (a slave state), moving into Kansas to vote and then return to Missouri. This period of American History is a really critical time to understand if your want to understand the emergence of the Civil War, and have a better insight into some contemporary events and processes.

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From its foundation in the United States until the year 1800, Methodism had testified against slavery as a moral evil. As slavery disputes intensified in the 19th century, there emerged two doctrines within the Methodist Church. Churches in the South were primarily proslavery, while northern churches started antislavery movements. The antislavery movement in northern churches strengthened and solidified in response to the pro-slavery apologia of Southern churches.

An address by an African American minister before the African Society, a black organization. Traces the slave trade from antiquity to colonial America, concentrating on Massachusetts.

The book is a copy of the speech or sermon that Henry Highland Garnet delivered to Congress in 1865, on President Lincoln's invitation. He was the first African American to address Congress. The Introduction by James McCune Smith is the earliest documentation on Henry Highland Garnet's life up to that time. Smith was Garnet's boyhood friend and became a medical doctor. Garnet was one of the most important abolitionists in American. He was born a slave in Kent County, Maryland, escaped with his family on the Underground Railroad at age 9, and was educated and lived in New York.

The removal of Judge Loring was sought because of his decision returning Anthony Burns to slavery under the federal Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Dana argues against the removal, but urges the Massachusetts legislature to instead take action in opposing the Fugitive Slave Law.

"A symbol of the strength of African-American women, and a champion of the rights of all women, Sojourner Truth was an illiterate former slave named Isabella who became a vastly powerful orator. Dictated to a neighbor and first published in 1850, Truth's celebrated story chronicles her life as a slave in New York State, her 1827 emancipation under state law, her religious experiences and her transformation into an extraordinary abolitionist, feminist, and impassioned speaker. Truth's magnetism brought her fame in her own time, and her narrative gives us a vivid picture of nineteenth-century life in the North, where blacks, enslaved or free, lived in relative isolation from one another." "Based on the most complete text, the 1884 edition of the Narrative, this volume contains the "Book of Life" - a collection of letters and biographical sketches about Truth, including the controversial transcription of her "Ar'n't I a Woman" speech and Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1863 essay "Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl" - as well as "A Memorial Chapter" about her death. In her Introduction, historian and Truth biographer Nell Irvin Painter looks at the woman behind the myth."--BOOK JACKET.

The removal of Loring was sought because of his decision returning Anthony Burns to slavery.