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- 10448
- author: None
- title: The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings
- date: None
- words: 10385
- flesch: 91
- summary: O, slave mother, hope! The lash of the master her deep sorrows mock, While the child of her bosom is sold on the block; Yet loud shrieked that mother, poor heart broken mother, In sorrow and woe.
- keywords: air; anti; arm; banner; blind; blood; bondman; boys; brave; break; broken; brother; chains; children; chorus; christian; cold; coming; country; dark; day; deep; earth; emancipation; ere; far; flag; free; freedom; freemen; friends; god; good; hand; hath; heart; heaven; hope; hurra; joyful; land; lash; liberty; like; little; long; lord; low; man; massa; men; mother; mountain; nation; night; north; o'er; old; oppression; pity; poor; power; sea; shame; shore; slave; slavery; song; sons; sorrow; soul; sound; spirit; star; sweet; thee; thou; thy; time; toil; track; true; tyrant; voice; wave; woe; word
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- 10986
- author: Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)
- title: Frederick Douglass A Biography
- date: None
- words: 22320
- flesch: 63
- summary: From this night of slavery Douglass emerged, passed through the limbo of prejudice which he encountered as a freeman, and took his place in history. Frederick Douglass was born in February, l8l7,--as nearly as the date could be determined in after years, when it became a matter of public interest,--at Tuckahoe, near Easton, Talbot County, on the eastern shore of Maryland, a barren and poverty-stricken district, which possesses in the birth of Douglass its sole title to distinction.
- keywords: abolition; abolitionists; address; agitation; aid; american; anti; appointment; argument; attempt; audience; august; auld; baltimore; bedford; best; black; bondage; boston; boy; britain; brown; cabin; campaign; captain; career; cause; certain; character; church; city; colonel; colored; columbia; constitution; convention; country; covey; day; days; death; delegate; different; district; douglass; early; editor; efforts; eloquence; england; english; equal; escape; established; events; experience; family; famous; february; field; force; frederick douglass; free; freedom; freeman; friends; fugitive; garrison; generation; god; good; government; grant; great; half; hands; heart; high; history; home; honor; house; humanity; influence; interest; ireland; john; johnson; justice; lady; large; later; law; leader; learned; liberty; life; lincoln; little; lloyd; long; man; march; maryland; massachusetts; master; means; measure; meeting; men; mind; miss; money; months; monument; mother; movement; mrs; national; negro; negroes; new; new york; newspaper; noble; north; northern; note; number; numerous; occasion; old; opinion; opportunity; orator; order; paper; party; past; pennsylvania; people; period; personal; phillips; place; plan; plantation; platform; political; possible; power; prejudice; present; president; principles; progress; public; question; race; railroad; right; rochester; rynders; september; services; slavery; slavery society; slaves; society; south; southern; speaker; speech; speeches; spirit; star; states; strong; subject; support; sympathy; temperance; time; true; union; united; views; visit; voice; war; washington; way; wendell; white; wife; william; women; words; work; world; writer; years; york
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- 11271
- author: American Anti-Slavery Society
- title: The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4
- date: None
- words: 249154
- flesch: 71
- summary: The same word defines the length of time which _Jewish_ servants served who did not go out in the _seventh_ year. The same word defines the length of time which _Jewish_ servants served who did not go out at the end of their six years' term.
- keywords: 1st; abolish; abolition; abolitionists; abraham; absolute; accord; account; action; acts; admission; american; american slavery; answer; anti; apostles; appeal; apprentice; argument; article; assembly; atonement; authority; beings; believe; benefit; best; bible; blood; bodies; body; bondage; bondmen; book; bought; bread; brethren; brother; business; buy; buying; canaan; canaanites; care; carolina; case; cattle; celebrated; century; certain; cession; chapter; character; chattel; chief; children; choice; christian; chron; church; cities; citizens; city; civil; claim; class; classes; clause; clay; code; colored; columbia; come; command; commandment; committee; common; community; compel; compensation; condition; conduct; congress; congressional; conscience; consent; consideration; constitution; continued; contract; control; convention; country; course; court; covenant; crime; cruelty; daily; daughters; david; day; days; dead; death; debate; declaration; defence; deliverance; descendants; design; destruction; deut; different; disabilities; discussion; disposal; distinction; distinguished; district; divine; doctrine; domestic; dominion; duties; duty; earnings; earth; effect; efforts; egypt; egyptians; eighth; emancipation; eminent; employment; enemies; england; english; enslave; entire; equal; escape; evidence; evil; example; exclusive; exercise; existence; exodus; express; extent; extermination; extract; eyes; face; fact; faith; faithful; false; families; family; father; favor; fear; feet; fellow; female; festivals; field; fine; fire; flesh; flocks; following; food; footnote; force; foreign; form; free; freedom; friends; general; georgia; gibeonites; giving; glory; god; good; gospel; government; gradual; grandson; grant; great; greater; ground; guard; guilty; half; hand; hard; head; heart; heathen; heaven; hebrew; help; herds; high; highest; history; hold; holy; home; honor; honorable; hope; house; household; human; humanity; husbands; idea; ignorance; iii; illustration; image; immediate; implied; import; important; independence; individual; inference; influence; inhabitants; inheritance; injury; inquiry; instance; institutions; instructions; instrument; intent; interests; israelites; jacob; jefferson; jerusalem; jesus; jewish; jews; job; john; joseph; josh; jubilee; judge; judgment; jurisdiction; justice; keeping; kind; kings; known; laban; labor; language; large; late; law; laws; left; legal; legislation; legislature; letter; lev; liberty; life; like; little; long; longer; look; lord; loss; lost; louisiana; love; maid; main; majority; making; man; manner; march; marriage; maryland; master; meaning; means; measure; meet; members; memorial; men; mere; messrs; miles; mind; mississippi; missouri; moment; money; month; moral; morality; morning; mosaic; moses; mother; murder; national; nations; natural; nature; necessary; need; negro; negroes; neighbor; new; noah; north; northern; number; objection; objector; offer; office; open; opinion; oppression; order; ordinance; original; owner; ownership; oxen; page; parents; particular; parties; parts; passage; patriarchal; paul; pay; payment; penalty; pennsylvania; people; period; permanent; perpetual; personal; persons; petition; phrase; place; point; policy; political; poor; portion; possession; possible; posterity; poverty; power; practice; prayer; present; president; price; principle; private; privileges; process; professor; property; prophecy; prophets; protection; provision; public; punishment; purchase; purpose; question; reason; record; regarded; regulations; relation; release; religion; religious; reply; report; representatives; reps; republic; resolution; respect; return; right; rigor; robbery; roman; rule; sacred; safety; said; sake; sam; samuel; sanction; saul; save; saying; scripture; seat; sec; self; senators; sense; sentiments; separate; servants; service; servitude; set; seven; seventh; shall; shows; silver; similar; sin; sinful; single; sins; slave states; slaveholders; slaveholding; slavery; slavery society; slaves; social; societies; society; soil; sole; souls; south; southern; sovereignty; special; specific; speech; spirit; stand; states; statute; stealing; stone; strangers; strong; subject; sufficient; support; supposition; supreme; system; targum; terms; territory; testament; testimony; thee; theft; thing; thou; thought; thousands; thy; time; title; tooth; trade; treatment; tributaries; tribute; true; truth; unconditional; union; united; united states; universal; unto; usage; vain; value; verse; viii; violation; violence; virginia; voice; voluntary; vote; vs.; wages; war; washington; way; ways; west; whatsoever; white; wicked; wife; william; willing; wise; witness; wives; women; word; work; worship; worthy; wrath; wrong; xii; xix; xvi; xvii; xxi; xxii; xxiv; xxv; xxxv; years; york; younger
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- 11272
- author: American Anti-Slavery Society
- title: The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4
- date: None
- words: 310120
- flesch: 66
- summary: It takes a single point of _state_ policy, and exalts it above NATIONAL interests, utterly overshadowing them; abrogating national rights; making void a clause of the Constitution; humbling the general government into a subject crouching for favors to a superior, and that too within its own exclusive jurisdiction. The law, by _creating_ slavery, not only affirmed its _existence_ to be within the sphere and under the control of legislation, but also, the conditions and terms of its existence, and the _question_ whether or not it should exist.
- keywords: 15th; 1st; 31st; 4th; ability; able; abolish; abolition; abolitionists; absence; absolute; abuse; accomplished; account; accustomed; acknowledged; acquainted; acres; acting; action; active; acts; actual; additional; address; admission; advanced; advantages; advice; advocates; affairs; affirm; african; afternoon; agents; agricultural; alabama; allowance; american; american slavery; annexation; anniversary; annual; answer; antigua; apostle; appeal; appearance; appendix; application; apprentices; apprenticeship; appropriate; april; archdeacon; argument; arms; arrangements; arrival; article; ask; assembly; assurance; attached; attachment; attempt; attendance; attention; attorney; august; authorities; authority; average; aware; baptist; barbadoes; bay; bear; bearing; beautiful; bed; beginning; behalf; beings; belief; benefit; benevolent; best; better; bible; bill; birth; bishop; black; blessed; blessing; blood; blow; board; body; boiling; bondage; book; boon; bourne; boy; branch; bread; breakfast; brethren; bridgetown; british; broken; brother; brown; building; burning; busha; business; calhoun; calling; cane; capable; capital; captain; care; carolina; case; cattle; causes; celebrated; cents; certain; cession; chains; chairman; change; chapel; chapter; character; charges; chattel; chief; children; christian; christianity; christmas; church; churches; circumstances; citizens; city; civil; civilized; claim; class; classes; clause; clay; clear; clergymen; close; clothing; coffee; cold; colonel; colonial; colonies; colony; colored; colored people; colors; columbia; coming; command; commerce; commercial; committee; common; communication; community; company; compensation; complaints; complete; complexion; concerned; conclusion; condition; conduct; confidence; congregation; congress; congressional; connecticut; conscience; consent; consequence; considerable; consideration; consistent; constitution; consul; contempt; continuance; continued; contrary; control; convention; conversation; convinced; copy; correction; correspondence; cotton; council; countenance; countries; country; countrymen; course; court; creek; crime; crop; crowded; cruel; cruelties; cruelty; cry; cultivate; cultivation; currency; cut; daily; danger; daniell; dark; darkness; date; daughters; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; december; decided; decision; declaration; deep; defence; degraded; degree; delegation; delicate; demand; demeanor; demerara; denial; description; design; desire; despotism; determined; different; difficulty; dignity; diminished; dinner; direction; discharge; discipline; discussion; disposed; disposition; distance; distant; distinction; distinguished; district; ditto; divine; division; doctrine; dogs; dollars; domestic; domestic slavery; door; doubt; doubtless; dreadful; driver; drought; drove; duties; duty; early; earnest; earth; east; easy; editor; education; effect; efforts; elevated; elmore; emancipation; employ; employers; enemies; enemy; engaged; england; english; enlightened; enterprise; entire; entitled; equal; equality; escape; esq; established; establishment; estate; europe; evening; event; evidence; evident; evil; examination; example; excellency; exception; excited; excitement; exclusive; executive; exercise; existence; expectations; expected; expense; experience; experiment; expressed; extended; extensive; extent; extract; extreme; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; faithful; fall; families; family; far; father; favor; favorable; fear; february; federal; feeling; feet; fellow; females; field; find; fine; fire; flesh; flogging; following; food; footnote; force; foregoing; foreign; forms; forward; fourth; free; free people; free states; freedom; freemen; french; frequent; friday; friendly; friends; fruits; funds; future; gain; gang; garden; general; gentlemen; george; georgia; girl; giving; glad; glory; god; golden; good; gospel; government; governor; gradual; grant; grateful; gratitude; grave; great; greater; greatest; green; ground; guard; guilty; gun; habits; half; hamilton; hands; happiness; happy; hard; harry; head; heart; heaven; heavy; help; henry; high; higher; highest; hill; hire; history; hitherto; hogsheads; holy; home; honest; honor; honorable; hope; horn; horrors; hours; house; howell; huckstep; human; humanity; husband; idea; ignorance; ignorant; immediate; implied; important; importation; impressed; improved; improvement; inalienable; increase; independence; india; indies; individual; industrious; industry; infant; influence; influential; information; informed; inhabitants; injuries; injury; injustice; innocent; inquiries; inquiry; insolence; instances; institutions; instruction; instrument; insurrection; intellectual; intelligent; intended; intercourse; interest; interesting; introduction; iron; island; jamaica; james; january; jefferson; jesus; jews; john; join; journal; joy; judge; judgment; july; june; jurisdiction; jury; justice; keepers; keeping; kentucky; kimball; kind; kindly; kindness; kingston; knowledge; known; labor; laborers; laboring; ladies; lady; language; large; largest; lash; late; law; laws; lazy; lead; learning; leave; left; legal; legislation; legislature; length; letters; liberality; liberty; life; like; likely; limited; limits; line; lionel; lips; little; local; long; longer; look; looking; lord; loss; lost; louisiana; love; magistrate; main; majority; making; man; management; manager; manifest; mankind; manner; march; market; marriage; married; maryland; massa; massachusetts; master; matters; means; measure; meeting; members; memorable; men; merchants; mercy; mere; messrs; middle; midst; miles; military; millions; mind; ministers; missionaries; missionary; mississippi; missouri; mistress; moment; monday; money; months; moral; moravian; morning; mother; motives; mountains; movements; mrs; murder; mutual; naked; narrative; nation; national; native; natural; nature; near; necessary; necessity; neck; need; neglect; negroes; neighboring; new; noble; non; north; northern; notice; nugent; number; numerous; o'clock; oath; obedient; object; objection; obligations; observation; occasion; october; offences; offer; office; officers; official; old; onesimus; open; opening; operation; opinion; opportunity; opposed; opposite; opposition; oppressed; oppression; oppressors; order; ordinance; ordinary; organization; original; overseer; owner; pamphlet; papers; parents; parish; parliament; particular; parties; party; passage; passing; passions; past; paul; pay; peaceable; peasantry; peculiar; pennsylvania; people; perfect; period; perpetual; personal; persons; petition; petty; philemon; picture; piece; pittsburgh; pity; place; plantation; planters; pleased; pleasure; point; policy; political; poor; popular; population; portion; possession; possible; pounds; power; powerful; practical; practice; praedials; praise; prayer; precepts; prejudice; preparation; prepared; presence; present; president; previous; price; princeton; principal; principles; prison; private; privileges; proceedings; process; produce; professor; progress; prominent; proof; properties; property; proportion; proprietors; propriety; prospect; protection; proud; provide; provision; public; publications; punishment; purchase; purpose; pursuit; quarter; question; quiet; race; rain; reach; reader; reading; ready; real; reason; reasonable; rebellion; record; rector; reference; regard; regret; regular; relation; religion; religious; remainder; remark; remarkable; removal; reply; report; representatives; republic; request; residence; resolution; resources; respect; respectable; respected; respective; responsible; results; return; rev; revenge; rich; richard; right; rise; road; rock; room; rose; ruin; rule; run; rural; sabbath; sacred; safety; said; sake; sale; satisfaction; satisfied; saturday; savior; saying; says; scene; scholars; school; scope; scotland; seat; second; secretary; secure; security; self; selling; senate; senators; sense; sentence; sentiment; september; sermon; servant; service; set; settled; severe; shall; short; sick; sickness; sides; silence; similar; simple; singing; single; sir; sisters; sitting; situated; situation; slave states; slaveholders; slaveholding; slavery; slavery cause; slavery party; slavery society; slaves; slightest; smith; social; societies; society; soil; solemn; soul; sound; south; southern; southern slavery; sovereignty; speak; speaker; special; species; specimen; speech; sphere; spirit; square; standard; standing; statements; states; station; stay; stealing; stock; stone; stop; stranger; streets; strength; strike; strong; stuart; style; subject; subordination; subsequent; success; successful; suffering; sufficient; sugar; sum; sun; sunday; superintendent; superior; supply; support; supposed; surprised; sympathy; system; talk; task; taught; tax; teachers; temperance; tendency; terms; territories; territory; testament; testimony; texas; thank; thing; thomas; thought; thousands; time; toil; total; touching; town; trade; traffic; tranquillity; treadmill; treatment; tree; trial; trouble; true; trust; truth; unable; uncle; understanding; understood; union; united; united states; universal; usages; usual; utmost; vain; valley; value; variety; vast; venture; victims; view; village; violation; violence; violent; virginia; virtue; visit; voice; volume; voluntary; vote; vs.; wages; wait; want; washington; water; way; wealth; week; weekly; welcome; welfare; wesleyan; west; wheel; whip; whipping; white; wicked; wide; wife; wild; william; willing; wisdom; wise; wish; wishes; witness; wives; women; words; work; working; world; worship; worst; worthy; wretched; wrong; years; yoke; york; young; | |
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- 11273
- author: American Anti-Slavery Society
- title: The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
- date: None
- words: 357051
- flesch: 66
- summary: The fact that all children born of slave _mothers_, whether their fathers are whites or free colored persons, are included in the census with the slaves, and further that all children born of white mothers, whose fathers are mulattos or blacks, are also included in the census with colored persons and almost invariably with _slaves_, shows that it is impossible to ascertain with any accuracy, _ Another inhuman method of _marking_ slaves, so that they may be easily described and detected when they escape, is called _cropping_.
- keywords: 1st; 9th; abolition; abolitionists; abraham; absolute; abuse; accommodation; account; accustomed; acts; actual; adams; addition; address; admission; adoption; advanced; advantage; advertisements; advertiser; advocate; affair; affray; african; african slave; age; aged; agent; alabama; alarm; alexander; allowance; alteration; amendment; american; annual; answer; anthony; anti; appeal; appearance; application; apportionment; april; arbitrary; argument; arkansas; armed; arms; army; article; assent; assistance; atrocities; attack; attempt; attended; attention; august; authorities; authority; average; aye; bad; baldwin; ball; ballot; baltimore; bank; baptist; barbarity; barbarous; bare; bargain; bear; beating; bed; bee; beef; behalf; beings; believe; benefit; benevolence; benjamin; best; bill; bishop; blacks; blood; blows; board; boat; bodies; body; bondage; boston; bowie; box; boy; boys; branch; bread; breakfast; breaking; breast; brethren; broken; brother; brown; brutal; brutes; building; burden; burning; business; butler; capital; captain; care; carolina; carrying; case; cattle; caulkins; causes; census; cent; century; certain; chains; chair; chairman; character; charge; charleston; children; christian; church; circumstances; cities; citizens; city; civil; claim; class; classes; clause; clay; clear; climate; close; clothes; clothing; co.; code; cold; collar; college; colonel; colonies; colored; columbia; comfort; comfortable; commerce; commercial; commitment; committee; common; community; compact; company; compromise; concerned; concession; condition; conduct; confidence; congress; connecticut; conscience; consent; consequence; considerable; consideration; constant; constituents; constitution; contempt; continued; contrary; convention; conversation; convicts; convinced; cook; corn; corner; correct; cost; cotton; countenance; counties; country; courier; course; court; cover; creatures; crimes; criminal; crop; cruelties; cruelty; cry; cut; daily; danger; dangerous; dark; daughter; david; day; days; dead; deadly; deal; dear; death; debates; dec; december; decided; decision; declaration; deed; deep; defence; degree; delaware; deliberate; demand; described; description; design; desire; despotism; details; determined; die; different; difficulty; digest; dinner; direct; discussion; disposed; disposition; distance; distant; distinction; distinguished; district; doctor; doctrine; dogs; dollars; domestic; door; double; doubt; doubtless; dreadful; drivers; driving; drove; duties; duty; early; earth; eastern; eastern states; editor; effect; efforts; elder; emancipation; employ; england; entire; episcopal; equal; equality; escape; esq; established; estimate; evening; evidence; evil; examination; example; exception; execution; executive; exercise; exist; existence; expense; experience; exports; express; extent; extract; extraordinary; eye; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; families; family; far; farmer; fatal; father; fault; favor; favorite; fear; feb; february; federal; feelings; feet; fellow; female; female slaves; fetters; field; fifths; finding; fine; finger; fire; fit; flesh; flogged; flogging; floor; florida; following; follows; food; footnote; force; foregoing; foreign; form; forward; foundation; fourth; framers; francis; free; free states; freedom; freemen; friday; friends; fugitive slaves; future; gazette; general; gentleman; george; georgia; gerry; girl; giving; god; good; gouverneur; government; governor; grand; great; greater; greatest; grimké; ground; guard; guilty; gulf; gun; habits; half; hall; hamilton; hampshire; hands; happiness; happy; hard; having; head; hearing; heart; heaven; heavy; henry; hide; high; highest; history; home; hon; honest; honorable; hope; horace; horrible; horror; horses; hospitality; hours; house; house slaves; human; humanity; hundreds; hunger; hunting; huntsville; husband; huts; idea; illinois; illustration; immediate; important; importation; imports; improper; impunity; inches; including; inconsistent; increase; independence; index; indians; indifference; individual; inflictions; influence; information; informed; inhabitants; inhuman; iniquity; injury; innocent; instance; instant; instrument; insurrection; intelligencer; intelligent; intention; interest; interesting; interference; introduction; invasion; iron; island; jackson; jail; jailor; james; jan; january; jefferson; jersey; joe; john; johnson; jones; joseph; journal; judge; judgment; judicial; july; june; jury; justice; keeping; kentucky; kept; kind; kindness; knife; knives; knowledge; known; labor; laborers; lacerated; ladies; lady; language; large; largest; lash; lashes; late; law; laws; lay; laying; learned; leave; left; legal; legislature; legs; length; letter; lewis; lexington; liable; liberties; liberty; life; like; likely; limbs; list; little; live; local; long; longer; look; lord; loss; lost; louisiana; louisville; love; macy; madison; main; majority; making; man; mankind; manner; march; market; marks; martin; maryland; mason; massachusetts; master; meal; meaning; means; measure; meat; medical; meeting; member; memorial; men; mention; merchandise; mercury; mercy; mere; messrs; methodist; middle; middle states; midst; migration; miles; milledgeville; millions; mind; minister; minutes; miserable; misery; mississippi; missouri; mistress; mobile; mode; moment; monday; money; months; moral; morality; morning; morris; morrow; moses; mother; motion; motives; moulton; mouth; mrs; mulatto; multitudes; murder; murdered; n.c; n.y; naked; nakedness; natchez; national; nations; native; natural; nature; navigation; navy; near; necessary; necessity; neck; need; neglect; negro; negro man; negro slaves; negroes; neighborhood; neighbors; nelson; new; new states; newspapers; nicholas; non; north; northern; notice; nov; number; numerous; o'clock; oath; object; objection; observation; observer; occasion; oct; odious; offence; office; officers; ohio; open; operation; opinion; opportunity; opposed; opposition; oppression; order; original; orleans; ounces; outrages; overseer; owners; paddle; page; pain; pair; paper; paragraph; parents; particular; parties; party; pass; passing; passions; pastor; pay; peck; peculiar; penalty; pennsylvania; people; perfect; period; permit; personal; persons; petition; petitioners; philadelphia; physician; picking; piece; pinckney; pistol; place; plantation; planters; pleasure; point; policy; political; poor; poor slaves; popular; population; possession; possible; post; pound; power; powerful; practice; prayer; preacher; preceding; prepared; presbyterian; presence; present; preservation; president; previous; principal; principle; prison; privilege; process; produce; professor; prohibition; proof; property; proportion; protection; provision; public; punishment; purchase; purpose; pursuit; quakers; quantity; quarter; quarts; question; quincy; race; raising; ranaway; randolph; reader; reading; ready; real; reason; receive; recent; recollect; refuse; regard; register; regulation; related; relative; religion; religious; remark; reply; report; representation; republican; residence; respect; respectability; respectable; respected; restriction; result; return; rev; revenue; revolution; rhode; rice; richard; richmond; rifle; right; rise; river; road; robert; room; rule; runaway slaves; runaways; running; rutledge; s.c; sabbath; sacred; sacrifice; safety; said; sake; sale; salt; samuel; sanction; satisfaction; satisfied; saturday; savannah; saw; scar; scene; scott; seat; second; section; secure; security; seed; self; senate; senator; sense; sentiments; sept; september; servants; service; set; severe; severity; sexes; share; sheriff; sherman; shield; shocking; shoes; shot; shoulders; showing; sick; sides; similar; single; sir; sister; situation; skin; slave laws; slave population; slave power; slave property; slave states; slave system; slave trade; slaveholders; slaveholding; slaveholding states; slavery; slaves; sleep; small; smith; social; society; solemn; sorry; soul; south carolina; southern slave; southern states; speaker; special; species; speech; spirit; spot; spring; standard; standing; statement; states; stay; stealing; step; stocks; stone; stop; stranger; street; strength; strike; striking; strong; struggle; student; subject; subscriber; suffering; sufficient; sugar; suit; summer; sun; sunday; superior; supply; support; supreme; swan; sympathy; system; task; tavern; tax; taxation; taxes; teeth; telegraph; tell; temporary; tendency; tender; tennessee; terms; terrible; territory; testimony; texas; thing; thirds; thomas; thought; thousands; time; torn; torture; total; town; trade; traffic; treatment; trial; true; truly; trust; truth; tuesday; turner; tyranny; uncle; unconstitutional; understood; unfortunate; unhappy; union; united states; unjust; upper; usual; utmost; vain; valuable; value; variety; vast; vengeance; vicinity; vicksburg; victims; view; violation; violence; virginia; virtue; visit; visitors; voice; vote; walk; want; war; warm; washington; water; wealth; weather; week; weight; welfare; west; western; whig; whip; whipping; white; wife; william; williamson; willing; wilson; winter; wish; witness; witnesses; wives; woman; wood; words; work; working; world; worse; worthy; wounded; wounds; wretched; writer; wrong; yard; years; yesterday; york; young
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- 11274
- author: American Anti-Slavery Society
- title: The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4
- date: None
- words: 73146
- flesch: 64
- summary: The others, _by a strange sort of reasoning for Christian men_, contend that though slavery is sinful, _yet it may be allowed to exist until it shall he expedient to abolish it_; or, if, in many cases, this reasoning might be translated into plain English, the sense would be, both in Church and State, _slavery, though sinful, may be allowed to exist until our interest will suffer us to say that it must be abolished_. But how could _he_ admit a persuasion and utter a prediction so much at war with the doctrine he maintains, that _slavery may exist without_ VIOLATING THE CHRISTIAN FAITH OR THE CHURCH?[89]
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- 11454
- author: Sturge, Joseph
- title: A Visit to the United States in 1841
- date: None
- words: 105443
- flesch: 55
- summary: I have recently learned that they are negotiating the purchase of the liberty of other slaves, who formerly belonged to Colonel Fitzhugh. The mistress of the Eagle Hotel sat at her table as a queen, surrounded by many slaves.
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- 12052
- author: Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon
- title: Half a Century
- date: None
- words: 100385
- flesch: 76
- summary: Had others to Col. Benton, Henry Clay, and other great men, but he who most interested me was Dr. Gamaliel Bailey, editor of the _National Era_. Each one seemed to stand before me, his innermost soul laid bare, and his idiosyncrasy I was sure to strike with sarcasm, ridicule solemn denunciations, old truths from Bible and history and the opinions of good men.
- keywords: abolition; abolitionists; account; act; administration; advance; afraid; afternoon; agent; aid; air; american; amputation; angry; answer; anti; appearance; arms; army; article; assured; attack; attempt; attention; audience; authority; babbitt; baby; bad; bank; barlow; base; battle; baxter; bear; beautiful; bed; beef; best; better; bible; bill; bishop; black; blankets; blood; blue; board; boat; body; bone; book; box; boys; bread; bright; broken; brother; brown; buchanan; building; business; cabin; campbell; captain; care; case; catch; catholic; chain; chapter; charge; children; christian; church; churches; city; claim; clay; close; clothing; cloud; coffee; cold; comfort; coming; command; commission; common; company; condition; contempt; contract; convention; converted; cook; copy; corner; cot; country; course; court; crime; cry; cup; cut; danger; dark; darkness; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; defense; demand; democratic; desk; destruction; die; divine; dix; doctor; dollars; door; doubt; dozen; dreadful; dress; dressed; dressing; dry; duty; early; earth; east; easy; editor; election; elizabeth; england; entire; evening; eyes; face; fall; family; far; fatal; father; favor; fear; feeling; feet; fence; field; fire; flesh; floor; folks; foot; force; form; fort; fredericksburg; free; freedom; friends; fugitive; furnished; general; gentleman; georgie; girls; glad; glory; god; good; government; grand; grave; great; green; grier; ground; guard; guest; hair; half; hall; hand; handsome; hard; head; health; heart; heaven; heavy; help; history; hold; holding; home; honor; hope; horror; horses; hospital; hot; hour; house; human; hurried; husband; idea; illness; indians; influence; inside; interest; iron; james; jane; jesus; john; journal; judge; kentucky; kind; kitchen; knowledge; labor; ladies; lady; land; large; late; law; lawyer; leader; leave; lecture; left; legal; lemons; letters; liberty; life; like; lincoln; lips; little; living; log; long; longer; look; looking; lord; lost; louisville; love; lowrie; lying; making; man; march; marriage; married; martha; mary; master; mean; medical; meeting; member; memory; men; mercy; midnight; miles; mind; minnesota; miss; mob; moment; money; months; moral; morning; mother; mrs; muscle; nation; national; natural; nature; near; necessary; need; new; news; nice; night; northern; notice; number; nurse; o'clock; object; office; officers; old; olever; open; opening; order; outside; packed; pain; pair; pantaloons; paper; party; pass; past; patients; paul; pay; pennsylvania; people; perfect; personal; picture; pieces; pittsburg; place; plan; pleasant; plenty; point; political; politics; poor; portion; position; possession; possible; post; power; prayers; preachers; presbyterian; presence; present; president; pretty; printing; private; progress; prominent; property; proprietor; public; pupils; purchase; question; quiet; reach; reading; ready; reason; rebellion; relief; religion; religious; report; republican; responsible; rest; result; return; rev; riddle; rights; river; road; room; rose; rough; run; rush; sabbath; sad; sale; saturday; save; saw; school; second; secretary; seeing; self; sense; separate; servant; service; set; short; sick; sign; sioux; sister; slavery; slaves; sleep; small; social; society; soft; soil; soldiers; solemn; sorrow; sorry; soul; sound; southern; special; spirit; spring; square; stairs; stand; standing; stanton; state; stay; step; stone; stores; strange; straw; stream; street; strength; strong; struggle; stump; subject; suffering; suit; summer; sun; supplies; support; sure; surgeon; surprised; swisshelm; sympathy; table; talk; tall; tea; theater; thigh; thing; thinking; thought; thousands; time; title; tom; town; trees; tribune; troops; trouble; true; truth; turn; type; union; united; useless; valley; victory; village; visiter; voice; wagon; walk; want; ward; warm; washington; water; way; webster; week; west; western; wharf; whig; white; wife; wilkinsburg; william; wish; wives; women; wonder; wood; words; work; world; worse; wounded; wounds; wrong; years; york; young
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- 13176
- author: Hume, John F. (John Ferguson)
- title: The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights, 1830-1864
- date: None
- words: 56704
- flesch: 68
- summary: The following is an extract from Theodore Roosevelt's biography of Thomas H. Benton in Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.'s American Statesmen Series, published in 1887: Owing to a variety of causes, the Abolitionists have received an immense amount of hysterical praise which they do not deserve, and have been credited with deeds done by other men whom, in reality, they hampered and opposed rather than aided. Mr. Lincoln had his weaknesses and limitations, like other men.
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- 18557
- author: Hillis, Newell Dwight
- title: The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict
- date: None
- words: 66261
- flesch: 69
- summary: Great men walked in regiments up and down the land. For great men and nations alike, the suggestive hours are the critical hours and epochs.
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- 19949
- author: None
- title: Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)
- date: None
- words: 54485
- flesch: 70
- summary: Both eminent for talent of an order (though differing somewhat in cast) far above the common level of great men. The ruling objection at present is, that slavery is WRONG, no matter where it may be found; that it is a moral evil, and an offence against religion, not less than a great political curse; that indifference to it among good men encourages its extension among bad men; and that nothing but resolute and universal condemnation of it in every form will stimulate to its abolition.
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- 22089
- author: Clark, George Washington
- title: The Liberty Minstrel
- date: None
- words: 26594
- flesch: 90
- summary: The lash of the master her deep sorrows mock, While the child of her bosom is sold on the block; Yet loud shrieked that mother, poor heart broken mother, In sorrow and woe. That poor mourning mother, of reason bereft, Soon ended her sorrows and sank cold in death: Thus died that slave mother, poor heart broken mother, In sorrow and woe.
- keywords: afric; air; anguish; answer; arouse; awake; babe; ball; ballot; banner; battle; bear; birney; bitter; blest; blind; bliss; blood; bosom; bound; boy; brave; break; breast; bright; broken; brother; burst; captive; cause; cease; chains; child; children; christian; clear; cold; coming; country; cruel; cry; dark; day; dead; dear; death; deep; earth; emancipation; england; ere; eye; eyes; fame; far; father; fear; fetters; fire; flag; foes; freedom; freemen; friends; fugitive; g.w.c; glorious; glory; god; gold; gone; good; grief; hail; hand; hark; hath; heart; heaven; help; high; hill; holy; home; honest; hope; hour; human; hurrah; huzza; joy; joyful; kind; land; lash; law; lay; let; liberty; life; light; like; little; lone; long; look; lord; loud; love; low; man; march; master; meet; men; mercy; millions; mind; mother; mountain; music; nation; near; negro; new; noble; o'er; oft; old; oppressed; oppression; peace; people; pilgrim; pity; poor; power; praise; prayer; pride; proud; rally; reign; rest; rise; roll; sad; sea; shall; shame; shore; shout; sister; sky; slav'ry; slave; slavery; sleep; soil; song; sons; sorrow; soul; southern; spirit; star; strong; sweet; tears; thee; think; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; toil; torn; triumph; true; truth; tyrant; vain; voice; vote; wave; way; wild; wish; woe; won; words; world; wrongs; yoke
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- 26123
- author: Beecher, Catharine Esther
- title: An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females
- date: None
- words: 27213
- flesch: 55
- summary: They will make laws so unjust and oppressive, not only to slaves, but to their Abolitionist advocates, that by degrees such men will withdraw from their bounds. And they claim that they shall succeed in making that city break off its sins, by these measures, because other men succeeded in banishing intemperance by labouring among their own friends and fellow citizens.
- keywords: abolitionists; advocates; anger; appropriate; arguments; association; benevolent; best; blacks; body; calculated; cases; cause; certain; character; charity; children; christian; citizens; city; claim; clarkson; common; community; conduct; convince; country; course; day; discussion; domestic; duties; duty; efforts; emperor; end; england; enterprise; evidence; evil; example; excitement; experience; facts; fear; feelings; fellow; females; form; free; freedom; friends; general; god; good; great; guilty; holding; important; increase; influence; intellectual; interest; judge; kind; language; laws; leaders; liberty; life; likely; little; look; love; man; manner; matter; maxim; means; measures; men; method; mind; moral; motives; nation; new; north; northern; object; opinions; opponents; party; past; peaceful; peculiar; people; personal; persons; place; point; power; practices; prejudice; present; principles; private; probabilities; proper; public; purpose; question; rebuke; reference; regard; relations; respect; results; right; rules; selfish; sense; sentiment; sex; similar; sin; sins; slave; slavery; sneers; society; south; southern; speech; spirit; stand; state; strife; subject; success; sympathy; system; temptation; tendencies; tendency; thing; time; trade; true; truth; unreasonable; views; way; whites; wilberforce; woman; work; wrong; |page
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- 28242
- author: Child, Lydia Maria
- title: An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
- date: None
- words: 86311
- flesch: 64
- summary: In Georgia, The inferior courts of the several counties on _receiving information on oath_ of any _infirm_ slave or slaves, being in a suffering condition, from the neglect of the owner or owners, can make _particular inquiries_ into the situation of such slaves, and render such relief as they think proper. Very recently, a particular account was given of the killing of a black man, _not charged with any offence_, by a person in pursuit of an _outlawed_ slave; owing, as it was stated, to the person killed not _answering_ a call made by his pursuers.
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- 3034
- author: Macy, Jesse
- title: The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm
- date: None
- words: 46662
- flesch: 60
- summary: From the standpoint of the great body of anti-slavery men who expected to settle the slavery question by peaceable means, it was a calamity of the first magnitude that, just at the time when conditions were most favorable for transferring the active crusade from the general Government to the separate States, public attention should be directed to the one point at which the conflict was most acute and irrepressible. When these two Territories became slave States, the equal division began.
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- 30772
- author: None
- title: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Second Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States Assembled at Philadelphia, on the seventh day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and continued, by adjournments, until the fourteenth day of the same month, inclusive
- date: None
- words: 5585
- flesch: 51
- summary: _ Section I. BE _it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled_, That no citizen or citizens of the United States, or foreigner, or any other person coming into, or residing within the same, shall, for himself or any other person whatsoever, either as master, factor or owner, build, fit, equip, load or otherwise prepare any ship or vessel, within any port or place of the said United States, nor shall cause any ship or vessel to sail from any port or place within the same, for the purpose of carrying on any trade or traffic in slaves, to any foreign country; or for the purpose of procuring, from any foreign kingdom, place or country, the inhabitants of such kingdom, place or country, to be transported to any foreign country, port or place whatever, to be sold or disposed of, as slaves: And if any ship or vessel shall be so fitted out, as aforesaid, for the said purposes, or shall be caused to sail, so as aforesaid, every such ship or vessel, her tackle, furniture, apparel and other appurtenances, shall be forfeited to the United States; and shall be liable to be seized, prosecuted and condemned, in any of the circuit courts or district court for the district, where the said ship or vessel may be found and seized. Section II. On motion, Resolved, That this Convention address the free black people, in the United States, exhorting them, by suitable arguments and motives, to such conduct and behaviour as may be judged most proper to promote their own happiness, and render them useful members of society.
- keywords: abolition; address; attention; benjamin; caspar; coates; committee; consideration; convention; country; dunlap; embree; evening; foreign; james; january; john; johnson; joseph; newlin; patterson; persons; place; present; president; proper; rawle; report; robert; said; samuel; slavery; slaves; societies; society; states; todd; townsend; united; united states; walton; william; wistar; woolsey
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- 31298
- author: Parker, Theodore
- title: The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence
- date: None
- words: 120708
- flesch: 70
- summary: You are to choose whether you will have such men as Wendell Phillips for your advisers, or such as Benjamin F. Hallett and Benjamin R. Curtis for your masters, with the marshal's guard, for their appropriate servants. Accordingly for judicial officers he appointed such men as would execute his unlawful schemes for the destruction of public liberty.
- keywords: 19th; absolute; accused; act; action; active; acts; actual; adams; additional; address; administration; advertiser; advice; aforesaid; african; alleged; america; anglo; answer; anthony; application; approbation; april; argument; armed; arms; arrest; attack; attempt; attorney; authorities; authority; bad; base; baxter; behalf; bench; benjamin; best; bible; bill; bishops; black; blood; body; bondage; book; boston; boston man; bowen; british; brother; burns; business; campbell; capital; case; certain; chain; chamber; chancellor; character; charge; charles; charter; chief; chief justice; children; christian; church; circuit; circuit court; circumstances; citizens; city; civil; claim; clear; colonies; colored; come; command; commissioner; committed; common; common law; commonwealth; conduct; congress; conscience; consent; consequence; constitution; constructive; constructs; contrary; conviction; corpus; corrupt; council; counsel; country; course; court; court house; craft; creatures; crime; criminal; crown; cruel; curtis; customs; daily; danger; day; days; death; decision; declaration; declares; deed; defence; defendant; democratic; design; desire; despotic; despotism; determined; different; direct; discharged; discretion; distinguished; district; dollars; doors; doubt; duties; duty; easy; edward; effect; efforts; ellen; end; england; english; equal; escape; eternal; evidence; evil; example; execution; exercise; express; eyes; face; fact; faithful; false; family; famous; faneuil; father; favor; fear; federal; fellow; fifth; fine; fire; fit; following; footnote; force; form; fourth; freedom; freeman; friends; fugitive; fugitive slave; function; general; gentlemen; george; god; good; government; governor; grand; great; grier; ground; guard; guilty; habeas; hale; hall; hallam; hallett; hancock; hands; hanway; happiness; hath; head; hearing; heart; help; high; higher law; historical; history; hold; home; hon; honorable; horne; hostile; house; human; humanity; hunters; idea; iii; illegal; immoral; important; imprisonment; independence; indictment; individual; influence; information; injustice; innocent; institutions; interest; jail; james; jeffreys; jesus; john; jones; judge; judge curtis; judgment; judicial; july; june; juries; jurisdiction; jurors; jury; justice; kelyng; kidnappers; kidnapping; king; kingdom; known; labor; language; large; late; law; lawful; laws; lawyers; learned; legal; letter; levying; libel; liberties; liberty; life; like; liking; little; lives; local; london; long; look; lord; loring; love; majesty; making; malice; malicious; man; mankind; manner; march; marshal; massachusetts; masters; matter; mayor; means; measure; meeting; members; men; mention; mercy; mind; minister; misdemeanor; money; months; moral; morality; morning; mother; murder; nation; national; natural; natural law; nature; nay; necessary; need; negro; neighborhood; new; newspapers; noble; north; northern; notorious; november; oath; obedience; obstructing; occasion; october; offence; officer; official; old; open; opinion; opposition; order; packed; pardon; parker; parliament; particular; party; pay; pennsylvania; people; peril; perjury; personal; persons; petition; philadelphia; phillips; place; plain; point; poison; political; politics; poor; popular; possible; power; powerful; prejudices; prerogative; present; president; principal; principle; prisoner; private; process; procure; property; prosecution; public; punishment; purchased; purpose; pursuit; question; randolph; read; regard; reign; religion; religious; report; reputation; rescue; resistance; respect; return; rev; revolution; richard; right; ruin; rule; sacred; sad; said; said united; samuel; saxon; scroggs; secure; sedition; sedition law; seditious; self; sentence; sermons; servants; service; shadrach; shame; ship; similar; sims; single; sir; slave; slave bill; slave law; slave power; slave states; slaveholders; slavery; small; society; soil; soldiers; soul; source; south; southern; speaking; special; speech; speeches; spirit; sprague; stand; standard; star; states; statute; stealing; step; streets; strong; stuarts; subject; sufficient; support; supposed; supreme; supreme court; supreme law; sworn; tax; testament; testimony; thee; theodore; thing; thomas; thought; thurlow; time; torture; town; trade; treason; trial; true; truth; tyrannical; tyranny; tyrants; ultimate; unalienable; unconstitutional; understanding; union; united; united states; unjust; unlawful; value; venerable; verdict; victim; violence; violent; virginia; vote; warrant; watson; way; webster; welfare; westminster; wicked; wickedness; william; wish; wit; witnesses; woman; words; work; world; worse; writ; writing; wrong; years; york
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- 31328
- author: Cromwell, John Wesley
- title: The Early Negro Convention Movement The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 9
- date: None
- words: 6903
- flesch: 56
- summary: The work of unifying the race along right lines now proceeded with the holding of state conventions. A national council was provided for to be composed of two members from each state by elections to be held at a poll at which each colored inhabitant may vote who pays ten cents as a poll tax, and each state shall elect at such election delegates to state conventions twenty in number from each State at large.
- keywords: 1830; action; allen; american; benjamin; black; business; canada; charles; church; city; college; colonization; colored; colored people; committee; condition; connecticut; convention; convention movement; country; delaney; delegates; douglass; emigrants; emigration; establishment; frederick; free; great; grice; henry; holly; james; john; june; langston; life; maryland; men; moral; movement; national; negro; new; new york; north; ohio; organization; pennsylvania; people; peter; philadelphia; plan; president; proceedings; purpose; rev; richard; robert; rochester; school; secretary; slavery; societies; society; star; states; tappan; thomas; time; united; vice; washington; whipper; whitfield; william; work; years; york
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- 34915
- author: Douglass, Frederick
- title: Abolition Fanaticism in New York Speech of a Runaway Slave from Baltimore, at an Abolition Meeting in New York, Held May 11, 1847
- date: None
- words: 4654
- flesch: 68
- summary: I cannot, however, my friends, dwell upon this anti-Prejudice, or rather the many illustrations of the absence of Prejudice against Color in England--but will proceed, at once, to defend the Right and Duty of invoking English aid and English sympathy for the overthrow of American Slavery, for the education of Colored Americans, and to forward in every way, the interests of humanity; inasmuch as the right of appealing to England for aid in overthrowing Slavery in this country, has been called in question, in public meetings and by the press, in this city. But in regard to American Slavery it is not so.
- keywords: abolition; aid; american; anti; audience; brethren; cheers; christian; city; colored; convention; country; england; fact; friends; glad; god; good; human; liberty; love; man; manner; men; moral; new; overthrow; people; power; public; question; race; rev; right; sir; slaveholder; slavery; slaves; temperance; time; world; york
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- 35693
- author: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory)
- title: History of American Abolitionism Its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the Southern Confederacy.
- date: None
- words: 36801
- flesch: 56
- summary: Charles Sumner, United States Senator from Mass.:-- This slave oligarchy will soon cease to exist as a political combination. In 1857 he was elected United States Senator from Mississippi for the term of six years, which office he held until his resignation on the secession of Mississippi from the Union.
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- 39568
- author: Tuckerman, Bayard
- title: William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery
- date: None
- words: 50721
- flesch: 54
- summary: Treaty, iv. ----, William, his birth, 1; education, 2; at Yale College, 4, 6; studies law, 8; marriage, 8; begins life at Bedford, 8, 9; begins philanthropic work, 10; advocates Bible Societies, 10; conflict with Bishop Hobart and High-Church party, 10, 11, 13; organizes American Bible Society, 11, 12; takes prize for essay on the Sabbath, 13; for essay on duelling, 13; appointed judge, 14; early adoption of antislavery cause, 28; espouses cause of Gilbert Horton, 29; begins movement for abolition of slavery in District of Columbia, 29, 32, 34, 36, 37; writes Life of John Jay, 39; his view of slavery problem in 1833, 43, 44; consulted regarding formation of American Antislavery Society, 45; advises acknowledgment of constitutional provisions, 45, 46; invited to join in organizing the American Antislavery Society, 49; his views on such an organization, 50; suggests a definite avowal of constitutional principles, 50, 51; becomes a member of Executive Committee of American Antislavery Society, 57; publishes his Inquiry, 58; its influence, 60, 61; appointed foreign corresponding secretary, 63; gives advice on right to use the mails, 65; his Address to the Public, 69; elected president of New York State Antislavery Society, 77; his reply to President Jackson's message, 78; protests against the introduction of irrelevant doctrines into antislavery societies, 84, 86, 100; protests against unconstitutional doctrines, 87, 90; defeats Alvan Stewart's resolution, 93; his opinion of the danger of unconstitutional doctrines, 90, 94; his opinion of Stewart's position, 95; his loss of faith in the usefulness of antislavery societies, 97, 100; placed on Executive Committee of American and Foreign Antislavery Society, 103; resigns membership in American Antislavery Society, 103; views on the woman question, 103, 104; his View of the Action of the Federal Government, 105; his Condition of the Free People of Colour, 106; his Violation of the Right of Petition, 106; his attitude towards Liberty party in 1840, 107, 108, 109; his attitude towards antislavery societies after the schism, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116; his attitude towards Liberty party in 1843, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121; his views on the annexation of Texas, 118, 127, 128; nominated for Senator by the Liberty party, 120; deprived of his seat on the bench, 122; his visit to Europe, 125; his Review of the Mexican War, 127, 128; his War and Peace, and plan for International arbitration, 130, 131; his attitude towards the come-outers, 132; his work in the Episcopal Church in favour of the slave, 132, 133, 144, 145, 147, 162; Letter to Bishop Ives, 133; reply to Webster, 137, 138; attitude towards the Fugitive-Slave Law, 140, 141, 142, 143; views on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 149, 150, 152; views on disunion, 153, 154, 155; his death, 156; his distinctive position among antislavery men, 156, 157, 158; his writings, 158; his conduct as judge, 160; other philanthropic work, 161; his position as a churchman, 161, 162; his life at Bedford, 163, 164; his family life, 164, 165, 166. Henry Wilson, Judge William Jay, inheriting not only the honoured name, but the principles and purity of the illustrious Chief-Justice, at first declined an office in the new society, deeming its organization premature, but now sought to take his share of its labours and responsibilities.
- keywords: abolitionists; account; action; active; address; admission; advice; alexander; american; american antislavery; american society; annexation; antislavery; antislavery cause; antislavery men; antislavery movement; antislavery society; arbitration; arguments; arthur; attempt; attention; attitude; avowed; bedford; behalf; belief; best; bible; birney; bishop; blacks; bondage; book; boston; business; candidates; carolina; cause; certain; chapter; character; charge; charles; chief; children; christian; church; circumstances; citizens; city; clergy; clinton; college; colonization; coloured; columbia; come; committee; common; community; compromise; condition; conduct; confidence; congress; conscience; consent; constitution; contest; continued; convention; cooper; cotton; country; course; court; danger; day; days; death; declaration; declared; demand; desire; determined; devoted; district; doctrines; duelling; duty; early; effect; efforts; elizur; emancipation; eminent; england; english; episcopal; equal; europe; evils; exclusive; executive; expediency; expression; extension; fact; faith; false; father; federal; fellow; following; force; foreign; formation; free; freedom; friends; fugitive; future; garrison; general; gentlemen; george; gerrit; god; good; government; governor; great; ground; hall; henry; high; history; hobart; home; hon; hope; horton; house; humanity; idea; immediate; important; independence; influence; injustice; inquiry; insurrection; interest; interesting; international; jackson; james; jay; john; john jay; judge jay; justice; labour; large; late; law; laws; legal; legislation; letter; lewis; liberty; life; little; long; lord; loss; majority; man; march; marked; massachusetts; means; measures; meeting; members; membership; men; mexican; mexico; mind; missouri; mob; moment; moral; motives; movement; mrs; national; negro; new; new york; north; northern; number; object; obligations; office; officers; official; old; opinion; order; organization; pamphlet; papers; parties; party; peace; pen; pennsylvania; people; personal; persons; peter; petition; philadelphia; philanthropic; physical; plan; pledge; point; policy; political; politicians; popular; portion; position; post; power; prejudice; prepared; present; president; press; principles; private; pro; proceedings; property; public; publications; purpose; question; race; reason; regard; relation; religion; religious; remarks; removal; reply; representatives; republic; request; resolution; result; rev; review; right; said; samuel; scheme; secretary; sense; sentiments; set; sir; slave power; slave states; slaveholders; slavery; slaves; smith; social; societies; society; southern; speech; spirit; states; stewart; strength; strong; struggle; subject; success; support; system; tappan; territory; texas; theodore; thomas; thought; time; trade; true; truth; unconstitutional; union; united; united states; value; van; views; violation; violence; vote; war; washington; webster; westchester; white; william; william jay; women; words; work; world; writings; wrong; xvii; years; york
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- 39720
- author: Herbert, Hilary A. (Hilary Abner)
- title: The Abolition Crusade and Its Consequences: Four Periods of American History
- date: None
- words: 47549
- flesch: 60
- summary: Liberator_; personality and characteristics, 56; key-note, slavery the concern of all; slave-holders to be made odious, 58 Godkin, E. L., on negro as factor in politics, 237 Greeley, Horace, draws comfort from John Brown's raid, 153 Hartford Convention, 28 Helper, Hinton Rowan, his book, 165 Higher law idea, prompted Abolition Crusade--and Czolgosz to murder McKinley, 206 Immigration and Union sentiment; number of immigrants, 33; few South, 34 Incendiary literature, sent South, 62; North aroused; Andrew Jackson's message, 63; Boston Resolutions, 64; indictment in Alabama; requisition on Governor of New York, 98 Incompatibility of slavery and freedom; Lincoln's Springfield speech, 81; Garrison first to announce doctrine; Abraham Lincoln next; then Seward, 147-8 Insurrections, Denmark Vesey plot at Charleston, 59; Nat Turner in Virginia; Walker's pamphlet, 60 Irish patriots, Mitchel and Meagher, divide on secession, 35 John Brown's raid, 149; his secret committee, 151 Johnson, Andrew, succeeding Lincoln, carried out plan, 213 Johnston, Sir Harry, on negro in South, highest degree of advancement, 237 Kansas, fierce struggles in; Sumner's bitter speech, 142-3 Kansas-Nebraska Act, Douglas originated, 135; aggravated sectionalism, 136 Kentucky Resolutions, 1798, 19; Jefferson the author, 20; copy of first of, 21 Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798-9; Secessionists relied on, 21; Jefferson and Madison's reasons for, 22 Know-Nothing party, its origin; purposes; appeal for the Union, 140-1-2 Las Casas, Bishop, advice to King of Spain, 237 Liberia, sending negroes to, called expatriation; enterprise a failure, 46; Lincoln's hopes of, 81; why it failed--Miss Mahoney's account, 169-70-71 Lincoln, South no more responsible for slavery than North, 49; speech at Charleston, Ill., 81; finds no country ready to take American negro, 82; South in 1860 thought him radical; had favored white supremacy in 1858, 185; speech at Peoria, 186; assassination of, 209 Lodge, Henry Cabot, declares popular verdict against Webster, 118; he had undertaken the impossible, 120; his argument good, he not man to make it, 121 Lundy, Benjamin, attempts to stir up North against slavery South, 47 Lynchings, tables, 239; comments on, 240 McMaster, affirms Webster behind the times (note), 100 Missouri, controversy over slavery, 52; distinct from that begun later by New Abolitionists, 53 Mobs, Garrison mobbed; many anti-slavery riots North, 71; violence toward Abolitionists in North reacted, 85; opponents became defenders, 86 Mound Bayou, a negro town, 242 Nationality, spirit of; causes of, development of, 30; grows, North; South on old lines, 35 Navy, U. S., deciding factor in war, 198-9 Negro, the, located now much as in 1860, 7; Lincoln could find no home abroad for, 206; reasons for smallness of vote South, 233; improvement; Booker Washington's opinion, 236; benefited by slavery; attained South highest degree of advancement, 237; best opportunities South, 241; Confederate veterans best friends there, 243 Ohio, Resolutions looking to co-operative emancipation; responses of other States to, 42; Southern reason for, 43; Northern, kindly temper of, 44 Otis, Harrison Gray, on Boston Resolutions, 65 Pamphlets, venomous one cited, 75 Personal liberty laws, eleven States passed; Alexander Johnston says absolutely without excuse, 177 Petition, right of, in Congress, 90; gag resolution, 92 Political conditions, North and South compared, 162-3-4 Poor whites, discussion of, and of social conditions South, 155-6-7 Presidential campaign 1860, excitement, 171 Press, Northern slandering South, 153; Southern slandering North, 154 Race animosities, negro's aspirations to social equality; legal enactments, 238; whites embittered by crime against white women, 239 Reagan, Republican rule on Abolition principles, 105 Reconstruction, Lincoln's theory; veto of resolution asserting power of Congress over, 208; last speech, adhering to plan, 210 Reconstruction by Johnson under Lincoln plan; wisdom of Lincoln-Johnson plan, John Sherman; opposition to it partisan, Senator Cullom, 211; South accepts plan; senators and representatives, 214; negro problem and Jefferson's prediction, 215; apprenticeship and vagrancy laws, Blaine's attack on, 217 Reconstruction, Congressional, extremists bent on negro suffrage when Congress convened in 1865, 212; preparations for; committee of fifteen; Shellabarger's appeal to war passions, 215; South denied representation; Southerners reject Fourteenth Amendment; Garfield denounces rebel government, 219; Johnson's reconstructed State governments swept away; universal suffrage for negro; South sends Republicans to Congress, 220; witnesses before Committee of Fifteen rewarded; Southern counsels divided, 223; carpet-baggers and scalawags, 224; intolerable political conditions; race issue forced upon whites, 226; whites recover self-government, 227 Republican party, the modern; its origin; Mr. Rhodes on, 138-139; nominates Frémont and Dayton; denounces slavery; excitement; defeated, 144 Resources, war, North and South compared, 191-2-3 Salem Church monument, 9 Santo Domingo, memory of massacre in, 80 Seceded States, wretched conditions in 1865, 214 Seceding States, desire to preserve Constitution, 179 Secession, early threats of not connected with slavery, 26; Josiah Quincy threatens, 1811; Massachusetts legislature endorses him, 28; in early days belief in general, 28; Massachusetts legislature threatens, 1844, 29; eleven States seceded, 179; Prof. Fite justifies, his ground, 182; motives for in 1860-1, 183 Self-government restored; local clashes, no race war; based on Lincoln's idea, superiority of white man, 229; constitutional amendments to restore purity of ballot, 233; industrial results amazing, 234-5; negro vote small--reasons, 231 Seward, leader of Republican party, 178 Situation in Alabama in 1835--letter of John W. Womack, 79 Slavery, Great Britain abolishes, compensates owners, 39; South's calamity not crime, 48; debate in Virginia Assembly, 61 Slaves, protect masters' families during war, 132-3; a surprise to North, 133-4 Slave-trade, New England's part in, 37; South protests against; sentiment against arises in England, sweeps over America, 38 Social conditions South, 155-60 South unwilling to accept idea of incompatibility of slave and free States, 94-5; bitterness in, 101; on defensive-aggressive, 126; excited; filibustering; importation of slaves, 145 Spencer, Herbert, slavery once a necessary phase of human progress, 237 Sprague, Peleg, on Boston Resolutions, 66 Suffrage, Lincoln thought Southerners themselves should control, 203 Sumner, Charles, philippic against South; Brooks's attack on, 143-4; negro suffrage to give Unionists new allies, 220 Texas, application for admission, 93; Agitation had created all over the North a spirit of hostility to slavery as it existed in the South, and especially to the admission of new slave States into the Union.
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- 51371
- author: Fitch, Charles
- title: Slaveholding Weighed in the Balance of Truth, and Its Comparative Guilt Illustrated
- date: None
- words: 10618
- flesch: 73
- summary: I know men may be found, whose hearts have felt the power of the religion of Christ, but whose moral sensibilities are not sufficiently awake, to lead them to obey God on this subject, to break every yoke and let the oppressed go free, who claim that _they_ treat their slaves kindly, and that under such circumstances, slavery is justifiable; and that moreover, they are not accountable for the crimes which other men commit among their slaves, or for the wrongs which they practice upon them. The wicked, heaven-daring laws of men, confer the _power_ of enslaving man--but the _right_
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- 9595
- author: Whittier, John Greenleaf
- title: The Conflict with Slavery Part 1 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII
- date: None
- words: 46526
- flesch: 60
- summary: 3. Abstinence on the part of the people of the free states from the use of the known products of slave labor, in order to render that labor profitless. 2. That free labor, its necessary consequence, is more productive, and more advantageous to the planter than slave labor.
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- 9599
- author: Whittier, John Greenleaf
- title: The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII, Complete The Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life, and Criticism
- date: None
- words: 97793
- flesch: 60
- summary: It is from this intellectual instinct, therefore, in favor of virtue, that the tombs of great men inspire us with a veneration so affecting. Thanks to such men as Sumner and Wilson and their compeers, nearly all that legislation can do for them has already been done.
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