DescriptionAn anti-war and anti-slavery sermon that condemned President James A. Polk for the hasty annexation of Texas territory between the Nueces and Rio Grande rivers and criticized the large cost in money...
DescriptionAnti-slavery poem from the New Jersey Freeman. Called for liberty of slaves from Maine to Texas and said that the slaves were ready to rise up. Overall a good depiction of abolitionist sentiment...
DescriptionPoem from the New Jersey Freeman about the life of a slave boy. The poem talks about the depressing conditions of slave life, but ends with hope that the bonds of slavery will be broken.
DescriptionLetter from Theodore Frelinghuysen, Vice Presidential candidate of the Whig party in 1844 to a Dr. Hall of Mississippi conveying to him that he is not an abolitionist, but a srong supporter of...
DescriptionPoem about a woman not being attracted to man who has his hands in any form in slavery. "Oh he is not the man for me, who buys or sells a slave."
DescriptionWilliam Lloyd Garrison acknowledges the receipt of William Still’s letter requesting a reply by a certain date; reports that there is no possibility of his attending the centennial of the...