4 10 42 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meetings and Events Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Philadelphia; 6.6.1847 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource Free Produce Meeting A general Meeting of the Free Produce Association of Friends of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, will be held at Clarkson Hall, north side of Cherry street, above Sixth, on Sixth day, 6th mo. 11th, at 8 o'clock, P.M. Friends generally, of both sexes, are invited to attend. Geo. W. Taylor, Secretary Philada., 5th mo. 29th, 1847 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Non-Slaveholder 2:7, p. 144 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5.1847 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meetings and Events Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contents of the Memorial to the Queen (Meeting) Subject The topic of the resource Discussion of event in England with mention of encouraging free labor Description An account of the resource The following Memorial, which we have just received from a friend in England, will show that an important movement is now going forward in that country, for the suppression of the African slave-trade. It is highly gratifying to observe that anti-slavery feeling or England does not slumber, and that it has again opposed itself in a tangible form to the horrid traffic in human flesh, which finds no greater protection anywhere than under the American flag. Contents of the Memorial to the Queen. The Memorialists respectfully call Her Majesty's attention to the enormities of the African Slave-Trade, which they describe as in a state of great activity, notwithstanding the efforts of this Country for its suppression. They submit that this arises - 1st, From the absence of good faith on the part of the Spanish and Brazilian Governments, which are under solemn engagements to relinquish the traffic. 2nd, From the increased consumption of slave-produce in this Country. With a view to remedy this evil, the Memoralists pray - That Her Majesty's Government shall use every legitimate and peaceful means for enforcing on Brazil and Spain the fulfilment of their Treaties with this Country - 1st, By the immediate abolition of the Slave Trade; and 2nd, By the emancipation of all Negroes unlawfully introduced. The Memoralists propose an individual and wide-spread abstinence from the productions of Brazil and Cuba, and pray Her Majesty: To exclude the same from the Royal Household. They further entreat her Majesty: To encourage the growth and manufacture of free -lacor Cotton, in order that it may more speedily supplant the Slave-grown Cotton of the United States. In conclusion, the Memorialists desire that Her Majesty's reign may be signalised by the annihilation of this stupendous crime, and that the blessings of the emancipated may mingle with the congratulations of her devoted female subjects. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The North Star Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6.29.1849 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meetings and Events Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource London; 10.1850 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource (From the Christian Citizen.) LONDON, Oct. 1850. I am just returned from a fortnight's tour into the West, and have held large meetings in Bristol, Newport, Plymouth, Davenport, and Modbury. I never found friends more hearty or enthusiastic, or the League cause more promising in its aspect. Two or three of these meetings were in aid of the Free Labor movement, and I had the company of Dr. Pennington of N.Y. I wish some of your "Fugitive Slave" law makers could have been present at Bristol, (once the strong-hold of the pro-slavery party in England,) and could have seen the reception given by 2000 of its citizens to the fugitive slave, the negro D.D. They stood up and gave him three tremendous hurrahs; and they manifested the deepest sympathy, as he detailed the provisions of the last act of American slave legislation. Surely, this iniquitous law must ensure its own overthrow, and must hasten the final destruction of the accursed system altogether. I think that if the American people really knew what an intense feeling of disgust and contempt this measure has created in England - what a weapon it has placed in the hands of the despots here, who taunt the men of progress, and say - "Look at your Republic; do you want to pull down our glorious constitution, and give us such liberty as this?" What can we say? Why, I tell our friends manfully to take their own share of the odium - to say to themselves, "Yes, it was England that first introduced slavery in the American colonies; it is English gold that now mainly buys American cotton, rice and tobacco; but now, in answer to the American fugitive slave bill, let England run up the Free Labor flag, and starve the system to death." I have been attending a large meeting of ladies and gentlemen at the Anti-Slavery office this morning, and we have formed a Central Free Labor Produce Association. It was resolved to open a warehouse in London for the wholesale supply of all kinds of free labor cotton goods. The demand is rapidly springing up, and it will soon be found that capital cannot be more profitably employed than in the cultivation of free labor cotton. A colored gentleman from Jamaica, studying for the church in this country, was present, and informed us that much interest is beginning to be felt in Jamaica in the growth of cotton, and that the planters in that island are looking forward to a good division of the British market with the Southern States. Garnett's lectures in the North have been much crowded, and thousands are coming into the movement. I cannot say what progress is making in the mediation between Denmark and Holstein; but it seems certain that the meddling protocol of England, France and Russia, is the great obstacle to the progress of that mediation. Denmark is so completely in the hands of the great powers, that she cannot freely act as she would. Still we hope for ultimate success. Friends are beginning to look forward to prepare for our next year's Bazaar with great enthusiasm. There is no doubt that the attendance will be immense. The Bristol friends say they will charter a special league train, and will bring up probably 500 visitors. - Hurrah for the Rail bringing 500 people 120 miles merely to visit a Bazaar and an Exhibition! EDMUND FRY. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edmund Fry Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The North Star Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12.5.1850 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meetings and Events Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource London; 7.18.1850 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource FREE PRODUCE MEETING IN LONDON. - A valuable correspondent informs us a meeting of women was held in one of the large committee rooms in Devonshire House, London, during the late Yearly Meeting in that city, to promote the use of free labor products. A small central committee was appointed, and about fifty Friends from the country gave in their names as correspondents. We trust the work thus commenced will find faithful laborers to promote its consummation. - Non-Slaveholder . Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The North Star Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available 7.18.1850 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meetings and Events Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An Anti-slavery Soiree (Event) Subject The topic of the resource Meeting in Newcastle-on-Tyne recommends the Free Labor Movement Description An account of the resource An Anti-slavery Soiree was held at Newcastle-on-Tyne on the 13th ult., to welcome H.H. Garnet and family to that town. Several ministers and other friends of the cause took part in the proceedings, which were of a spirited and interesting character. Fruits and other refreshments were handed in the course of the evening, an excellent feeling pervaded the audience, which numbered between three and four hundred. The following resolutions were passed unanimously: "1st. - The friends of different religious communities now assembled, recognizing the fact that God has made of one blood all nations of men, whom he has united one to another by mutual wants, as well as by a common nature, deeply regret the continuance of American Slavery, by which fearful wrongs are inflicted upon millions of our fellow creatures, the laws of justice and mercy are set at nought, and the Creator himself is grossly insulted. "2d. - That this meeting contemplates with feelings of grief and shame the extent to which American Christians and churches are implicated in the perpetuation of Slavery, and still more in the support they have given to the Fugitive Slave Act; and we feel constrained, by our love of righteousness, by our sympathy for those who suffer wrongfully, by our reverence for the laws of God, and by our concern for the honour of Christianity, to protest against this great transgression of the American people, and to beseech them to employ the best means for its speedy and complete termination. "3d. - This meeting rejoices to know that multitudes of fugitives have, from time to time, made their escape from American Slavery into the British dominions; and, among the rest, we hail the name of the Rev. Henry Garnet; and we take this opportunity of assuring him of our sympathy, confidence, and love, whilst we hasten to give him and his family a hearty welcome to Newcastle, on their coming to reside amongst us for a season. "4th. - Seeing that the great design of the Fugitive Slave Act is to supply the markets of the world, and, above all, British markest, with slave produce , in competition with free labour, this meeting would earnestly recommend to their friends the Free Labor movement , as a legitimate and effectual method of putting down a system of wickedness such as can find no parallel on the face of the earth." - The Slave . Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Frederick Douglass' Paper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3.11.1852 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meetings and Events Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lockport, NY; 11.18.1854 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource Free Produce Association At an adjourned meeting of the Free Produce Association , of Niagara Co., held in the basement of the Lutheran Meeting House, in Lockport, on the 18th of November, 1854, at 1 o'clock P.M., Marcus Stickney was chosen Chairman of the meeting; and Thos. E. Hartley appointed Secretary. The following Resolutions were then proposed, and unanimously adopted. Whereas we believe that slaveholding is opposed to the spirit and tenor of the Christian Religion, and mainly supported by the purchasers of the Slave labor; and, holding these views we regard it as our duty to abstain, as far as practicable, from the use of such productions and to increase the facilities for purchasing goods produced by free labor, therefore, Resolved , That we unite in an association under the above title, and hereby pledge ourselves to carry out those views, as far as is consistently practicable, by the purchase of such goods only as are the products of Free Labor. Resolved , That a committee of four be appointed to circulate the above resolution and pledge, and obtain signature thereto. Mead Atwater, Marcus Stickney, Titus Atwater, and T.E. Hartley were appointed as such Committee. Resolved , That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Lockport Journal. Resolved, That this meeting adjourn to meet on the 16th of December next at 10 o'clock, A.M., in the basement of the Lutheran Church in this village, unless some other place be designated prior to the meeting. All friendly to the cause are respectfully invited to attend, particularly the 51 men and women signer to the Constitution with others. MARCUS STICKNEY, Pres't . T.E. HARTLEY , Sec'y . Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Frederick Douglass' Paper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12.15.1854 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meetings and Events Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sunderland, UK; 10.4.1850 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource Anti-Slavery Demonstration A public anti-slavery meeting was held in Smyrna Chapel, on Monday evening last. The Rev. John Parker presided. Long before the time appointed for the services of the evening, the chapel was crowded to excess; and as it was thought desirable that none who had come interested in the prosperity of the movement should be disappointed, it was resolved to open Union Chapel for those who could not gain admittance into Smyrna. In a few minutes that chapel was also crowded. When the Rev. Dr. Pennington and the Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, gentlemen of color, and once slaves, but now ministers of the gospel, the former in the city of New York, and the latter at Geneva, State of New York, entered the chapel, the immense assembly rose and in the most welcome and enthusiastic manner greeted them as brethren. It was then agreed that they should each address both meetings. The Rev. James Muir presided over the meeting in Union Chapel. The addresses of the gentlemen were eloquent, persuasive and thrilling, and were received with expressions of the highest approbation. Many of their statements filled the audience with horror, and drew from them the deepest sympathy. - They showed that the history of slavery on the cotton fields of America, is the very epitome of human misery. The slaves are treated like beasts of burden - their family ties are disregarded - they are constantly worked under the whip - even the women being flogged unmercifully when they fail in accomplishing their appointed task. Should they attempt to escape, they are hunted with bloodhounds, and not unfrequently shot down like wild beasts. The average life of a slave on a cotton plantation is estimated not to exceed seventy years. They exhibited American slavery as they had seen and felt it; they showed its debasing character, injustice and impolicy, even in a temporal light; the oppression, cruelty, and wretchedness of the fugitive slave law, lately passed by both houses of Congress, and which is now the law in operation in that country. They also pointed out the means by which the system may be entirely suppressed, viz. by using free labor produce , and refusing to touch or taste any article produced or manufactured by slaves. In the United States, Brazil, and Spanish colonies, there are seven millions of slaves who produce , cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco and coffee, which articles are consumed in large quantities by the British nation. They give the slaveholder their money or manufactures in exchange for the products of the blood-stained fields, and thus furnish the means for continuing the atrocious system. The remedy is apparent - abstain from their produce and slavery must cease. A whip of a slave-driver was shown, which has often been wet with the blood of the oppressed slave. The whip was nine feet in length, a fearful weapon to be applied in the punishment of a human being. Manacles for the legs and neck, which had been manufactured in Birmingham, were also shown, and produced sensations of the most intense nature, and loud cries of "shame, shame." Both meetings were most enthusiastic. The Rev. James Pringle, from Newcastle, Revds. S. Watkinson and John Morris, with Mr. Wakinshaw, took a part in the proceedings of the evening. A vote of thanks was given to the rev. strangers in the same expressive manner as they had been greeted when they entered the meeting. A collection was taken for aiding the good work commenced; it was liberal, and showed the intense feeling of the meeting. After prayer, by the Rev. presiding gentlemen, the meeting separated. On Wednesday morning at 11, a most respectable meeting was held in Union Chapel, for forming a Ladies' Anti-Slavery Association , for promoting the sale of free labor produce . The Association was formed with all its office-bearers, and a considerable number of ladies have become members. There is something about these movements that leads us to contemplate the day as not far distant when slavery shall be no more. The Rev. Dr. Pennington preached last Sabbath evening in Dundas-street chapel, and in the morning in Smyrna chapel. The Rev. H.H. Garnet preached in the morning in Maling's Rig chapel, and in the evening in Union chapel. The Rev. Dr. Pennington addressed the children of St. George's Sabbath-school in the afternoon. - Sunderland Herald, Oct. 4. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The North Star Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10.31.1850 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meetings and Events Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Boston Bazaar (Event) Subject The topic of the resource Mention of Free Produce Associations in event description Description An account of the resource Nearly eight columns of the Liberator of last week are occupied with an account of this Bazaar. By this official report, we learn that the receipts (we suppose the gross receipts, for nothing is said of expenses) amount to three thousand dollars - a sum less than that received from the Bazaar last year - a circumstance elaborately accounted for in the report. The conservatism of Boston is dwelt upon in quite a philosophical strain, in which the case of poor Sims (the fugitive slave) is woven with much skill and effect. The exclusion of the Bazaar from old Faneuil Hall is, very properly, made the subject of extended remark. The glaring pro-slavery spirit and partiality of the city authorities are fearlessly set forth, and must cover them with shame and reproach. It seems that those worthies could grant the use of Faneuil Hall, on half toll, to the Catholic Fair, and refuse it to abolitionists even when offered the whole price which they had fixed as the rent rate. The Bazaar, from the report, does not seem to have lacked British contributions. "Our friends in Great Britain had, with one or two exceptions, exceeded the generosity of previous years. Wherever a deficiency had occurred, it has been supplied with fresh and unlooked-for laborers. Boxes of great variety and value were received from the following places in Great Britain: London, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, New-castle-upon-Tyne, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, Dublin, and Cork. These included donations from Bath, Frenchay, Chatham, Bolton, and other towns in England, and from Dundee, Sterling, Crieff, Comrie, Milnathrob and Kinross in Scotland." In speaking of the catholicity and breadth of the American A.S. Society, the report says: "As we have said elsewhere, a recognition of the sinfulness of slavery, and the duty of its immediate abolition, is the basis on which its operations rest, the tie which unites in harmonious fellowship a great multitude of men and women, differing, perhaps, in various degrees, on every other subject. No religious or political test is allowed. On its platform, men and women, blacks and whites, natives and foreigners, Christians and infidels, have the same rights, and are by their presence committed to nothing but a warfare on slavery." Theoretically, this is true; PRACTICALLY it is far from the truth. The time was, we know, when " harmonious fellowship" with the American Anti-Slavery Society was the " recognition of the sinfulness of slavery, and the duty of its immediate abolition," but this time has passed. No such qualifications as these, can secure such " harmonious fellowship;" and this, we believe, the writer of the above well knows. - The " recognition " of the pro-slavery character of the U.S. Constitution, and a bitter hatred of "the Liberty Party," are far safer passports to " harmonious fellowship" with that Society, than is the " recognition of the sinfulness of slavery, and the duty of its immediate abolition." As an evidence of the exceeding coolness of this writer, take the following: In closing this paper, necessarily brief and inadequate, we feel that our whole duty were not discharged, did we not renewedly commend the American A.S. Society to the donations and sympathies of all who are seeking to find the only real and efficient anti-slavery instrumentality that the country affords. Free Soil parties, Vigilance Committees, Associations for the Improvement of the Colored Race, Free Produce Associations , Schools for Colored Children, - all and each of these do a partial, and some of them a praiseworthy work, in aid of the anti-slavery enterprise. But they are only collateral, and dependent for their vital breath on the life created by this organization. " The only real and efficient anti-slavery instrumentality that the country affords!" Sister, here we think you are mistaken. In this Protestant country, it will not do to deal in " onlys." There are so many " efficient anti-slavery instrumentalities, it scarcely looks modest for any one among them, to arrogate to itself the Romish appellation of " only." We believe that the American A.S. Society is doing a great and good work; and, as far as its members will allow us, we are disposed to co-operate with it; still, we think that our anti-slavery "vitality" is not imparted to us by that organization. There is a Power that supplies that "vitality,' independent of all human organization; and that Society might fall to pieces tomorrow, and strange as it may seem, the anti-slavery cause would survive it. Oh! when will men and women cease to worship the Form, instead of the Power - look, with becoming humility upon the works of their own hands? Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Frederick Douglass' Paper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2.5.1852 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meetings and Events Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Philadelphia; 10.15.1839 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource American Free Produce Association The first annual meeting of the American Free Produce Association will be held in Philadelphia on the 15th of October. Societies auxiliary to this are requested to send large delegates and the friends of the cause generally are invited to attend. On behalf of the Executive Committee. ABM. L. PENNOCK, Chairman, DANL. L. MILLER, Secretary. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Colored American Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10.5.1839 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meetings and Events Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Constitution of the Free Produce Association of Western Vermont Description An account of the resource Believing that slaveholding is opposed to the sprit and tenor of the Christian religion, and mainly supported by the purchase of the productions of slave labor, were regard it our duty to abstain, as far as practicable, from the sue of such productions. With these views, and to increase the facilities in procuring goods produced by free labor, we unite in an Association under the title of the Free Produce Association of Western Vermont, and adopt for its Government with the following rules: ARTICLE 1. This Association shall consist of such persons as concur in the above sentiments, and sign the Constitution. ARTICLE 2. The objects of this Association shall be not to substitute this for other modes of Anti-Slavery actions, but to take up the Anti-Slavery enterprise where the church and ballot box heave it - to carry frequent Anti-Slavery action into the family circle of each of its members, to the counter of the store-keeper, to the factory of the exchange, as unreservedly as we would make it an affair of the church, or the business or legislative bodies - to stimulate ourselves in such practical Anti-Slavery efforts as a constant recurrence ft our leading principles would induce - to adopt means for obtaining a supply of articles the production of free labor, that cannot be other wise and impolicy of slave labor, the demolition of domestic comfort, of social and religious privileges, and the destruction of human life which it occasions, and the duty of withstanding from it our support. ARTICLE 3. The Association shall meet annually, and at such other times as the Board of Managers shall direct. ARTICLE 4. The officers of the Association shall be a President, two Vice Presidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and a Board of Managers, to be appointed at the Annual Meeting, and continue in office till others are appointed. ARTICLE 5. The duties of the officers of the Association shall be similar to those in other associations , (defined in the by-laws) and they shall submit a report of their proceedings forth past year at the Annual Meeting. ARTICLE 6. the Association shall correspond, as occasion may require, with such similar associations as may be established in promoting its objects. ARTICLE 7. This Constitution may be altered or amended at any Annual Meeting of the Association , by a vote of two-thirds of the members present. S. HUMPHREY, President, pro-term . HENRY MILES, Corresponding Secretary. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Frederick Douglass' Paper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6.9.1854