“From a letter to the editor of the Michigan Observer — I have just received a letter from a highly valued friend in Mississippi, who says, ‘I was recently conversing…
September 17, 2006
September 29, 1843 Here are two brief items, one from Kentucky, one from Maryland, from the Rochester Evening Post, each used to indicate that Anti-Slavery is advancing in the South.
April 6, 2007
February 22, 1856 A letter to Samuel May, Jr., name of writer and place from which it comes omitted. In it the writer asks for more copies of The Liberator,…
June 14, 2007
April 24, 1863 A crowded meeting at Faneuil Hall hears Gen. A. J. Hamilton, of Texas. “He showed that the South, before the rebellion, had always carried its point, and…
June 14, 2007
June 26, 1863 A large and enthusiastic meeting was held at the African Church. Resolutions passed “acknowledge the hand of God in the great events which are now taking place”,…