August 8, 1851 In a letter to Maria Weston Chapman, Hugo speaks strongly against slavery: “Slavery in the United States! It is the duty of this republic to set such…
December 6, 2006
December 6, 2006
July 18, 1851 A letter from Maria Weston Chapman, written to the editor of the Anti-Slavery Standard, gives encouraging word of a gathering of women with whom she met while…
October 24, 2006
March 31, 1848 “The Provisional Government acknowledged by Great Britain and the United States – Slavery abolished in the French Colonies —All Europe Shaken” This heading introduces several items describing…
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March 22, 1839
A notice from the Zion’s Watchman appears here, extracted from a letter dated Oct 21, 1838, from Paris. The letter is from the correspondent of the New York American, no…