1 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; 10.19.1842 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource AMERICAN FREE PRODUCE ASSOCIATION The Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Free Produce Association, will be held at Clarkson Hall, Philadelphia, on Third day, the 19th of Tenth month, 1842. BENJ. S. JONES, Secretary Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Benj. S. Jones Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National Anti-Slavery Standard 2:18, p. 3 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10.07.1841 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 Free Labor Produce Description An account of the resource FRIEND Q— I have waited to see if there would be any response in the Liberator to the letter of our friends in Philadelphia on the subject of obtaining from the products of slave labor ; but as nothing appears from head quarters, I have a suggestion to make. Agreeing as I do on the general view of the subject taken by our Philadelphia Friends I am desirers to do something to relieve myself and others as far as practicable from the necessity of being obliged to give this kind of support to slavery. I have no controversy with Mr. Garrison and these who take his view of the questions, for I am aware that we cannot avoid giving to some extent this kind of support to unrequited labor, without going out of the world. Still I would do all that can be done Therefore, all persons who are in favor making an effort to avoid (as much as possible) the purchase of the products of Slave labor , are required to meet at the offer of Grandin &. Dudley, No. 238 Washington Street, on Friday evening, Sept. 1st. at 7 12 o'clock. to consult upon the measures necessary to be taken to form a free labor produce association. D.S. GRANDIAN. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Liberator Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9.1.1848 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource D.S. Grandian 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 American Slavery - The Free Labour Movement Subject The topic of the resource Description of Henry Highland Garnet's visit to England and lecture on free produce Description An account of the resource It is already known to our readers -- for we have repeatedly brought the fact under their consideration -- that a movement is on foot in this country to undermine the institution of American slavery, by withdrawing, as far as may be, its foundation and support -- the consumption of its products -- its cotton, and sugar, and race -- raised by the enforced and unrequited toil of the negro. With this view tracts have been circulated making known to housekeepers what countries and colonies produce their goods by slave labour, and what by free labour -- that, in making their purchases, they may choose the free in preference to the slave -- may prefer, for instance, the sugars and coffees of the British West Indies to those of Cuba or the Brazils, the rice of Patras or Java to that of Carolina, the cocoa of Trinidad or Grenada to that of Brazil. But the friends of the free-labour movement have chiefly endeavoured to promote the cultivation and supply of cotton by voluntary and remunerated industry, as the most effectual means of competing with the American slaveholder, and wounding him to the quick. There are great difficulties in the way of this enterprise; but they are not insurmountable, and already some wholesale mercantile houses have placed themselves in a condition to supply free-labour goods to retail tradesmen. Moist sugar, coffee, and rice, the produce of voluntary labour, may be obtained from any wholesale house; loaf sugar, from Stantin & Fry, London; prints for ladies' dresses, Crewdson's fine shirtings, Morris's white and grey calicoes, coloured glazed linings, sewing cottons, tapes, &c., from J.F. Browne & Co., Manchester; white and grey calicoes, knitting cottons, &c., from Barrow & Satterthwaite, Lancaster; hosiery, from J. & R. Morley, Wood-street, Cheapside, London; Strutt's three-thread knitting cottons, from Burtenshaw & Gaude, London. In Newcastle, Richardson & Coxon and Mr. Charles Bragg, and in Gateshead Mr. F. Clark, drapers, keep free-labour goods; and other tradesmen will doubtless also procure them -- and the more readily if their fair customers ask for them. To induce our countrywomen on whom the success of this movement mainly (we might say altogether) depends, to make this request -- to desire the shopkeeper to serve them with goods that have been freely procured for market wages, in preference to those the slaveholder has raised by the labour of his bondsmen -- not only, as we have already stated, has the press been set in motion, but MR. HIGHLAND GARNET, a coloured gentleman, of pure African descent, born in slavery, but now happily emancipated, has been induced to visit this country, and appeal from the platform for sympathy and support. His arrival in this country was announced in a previous number of the Gateshead Observer, and we have not to report his first appearance before a public meeting. This was held on Monday evening, the 16th inst., in the Weslyan school-room, Gateshead--the most spacious apartment in the borough, yet crowded from end to end. A hymn had been sung, prayer was offered up by the Rev. Mr. RATTRAY, of Swalwell, and the Rev. T.K. ANDERSON, Presbyterian minister, was called upon to take the chair. Mr. GARNET was most kindly and cordially received when he rose to address the meeting. After a few words of introduction, he stated that he appeared before an English audience on behalf of an oppressed and injured race on the continents of America and Africa, and of countless numbers on the islands of the ocean, who lifted up their fettered hands to Heaven, and prayed for liberty. He was there as their advocate, not only because he was of the same race, every drop of blood in his veins being African; but also because he was a man. (Applause.) Mr. Garnet read a letter -- one of the last letters ever written by John Wesley -- which was on the subject of slavery, and was addressed to William Wilberforce, animating him to renewed zeal and courage in his philanthropic enterprise, and stigmatizing American as the worst form of slavery which had ever existed under the sun. The institution thus justly described by Mr. Wesley had now three millions of victims; or, in other words, there were as many human beings held in bondage in the United States as there were inhabitants -- men, women, and children -- in all Scotland. (Sensation.) And the physical horrors of slavery -- on which it was not his intention to dwell -- were not its worst and most appalling consequences. Its moral effects were still more fearful and lamentable. Yet of these the slaveholder was accustomed to make his boast. When he had blotted out from his victim the natural, inborn love of liberty; when he had extinguished within him all those high and holy aspirations and affections which gave dignity to human nature; then, with his foot upon the neck of his prostrate slave, he exulted in his work, and proudly proclaimed that the crouching and abject serf was -- CONTENT! (Hear, hear.) But, as a class, they were not content. If they were, how came it that thousands of them fled the house of bondage? The slaveholder bitterly complained of the loss of his property--he was angry that they sought and found an asylum in Canada -- that, flying from the shadow of the Republic, they took refuge under the shelter of the English Monarchy. (Applause.) But what would have become of the United States, if the forty thousand negroes now in Canada had ben retained in bonds? Canada, in fact, was the safety valve of American Slavery -- the protection of the Republic from a destructive explosion. Thither it was that the aspiring negro, whose resolve was liberty or death, directed his fugitive feet; and woe to the United States if no such asylum existed for the mounting and untameable spirits of his (Mr. Garnet's) race! (Applause.) Virginia and Maryland, Mr. Garnet stated, were states whose chief exports were slaves; and the average duration of an exported negro's life did not exceed from five to seven years. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Garnet exhibited one of the whips wielded by the drivers-- a whip, he said, which had frequently been used in lashing men and women. He also produced the chains imposed upon the necks and limbs of the slaves. But, he said, for these he was indebted, not to America, but to England. Yes! Birmingham was the place in which the shackles were forged which the manstealer placed upon his prey. (Sensation.) But let the forgers beware! Lord Brougham, in. 1840, obtained a law which made it felony to aid and abet the Slave Trade; and the men who made these chains, and who were well known, might be transported. (Applause.) While America built the fleetest vessels in the world -- the Baltimore clippers -- to waft the poor negro from slavery, Portugal and Spain supplied the crews, and England wove the fabrics that were given in exchange for the captive African, and forged his chains. (Hear, hear.) A rude song, said to be the composition of a slave, was frequently sung in the United States on the occasion of processions of the captured gangs. He (Mr. Garnet) had no pretensions to be considered a vocalist, but h would sing the words:-- See these poor souls from Africa Transported to America. We are stolen, and sold to Georgia: Will you go along with me? We are stolen, and sold to Georgia: Come sound the jubilee! See wives and husbands sold apart: Their children's screams will break my heart. There's a better day a-coming: Will you go along with me: There's a better day a-coming: Go sound the jubilee! O, gracious Lord! when shall it be That we poor souls shall all be free? Lord, break them slavery powers: Will you go along with me? Lord, break them slavery powers: Go sound the jubilee! Dear Lord! dear Lord! when slavery'll cease, Then we poor souls will have our peace. There's a better day a-coming: Will you go along with me? There's a better day a-coming: Go sound the jubilee! (These simple lines, set to a plaintive air, produced a marked impression on the meeting.) Mr. Garnet proceeded to say, that the only way in which Britain could, legitimately assist in the emancipation of the American slave, was by argument; and the most powerful argument would be the discontinuance, as far as possible, of the consumption of slave-labour products. A former generation gave up, for the sake of the negro, the use of slave-grown sugar; and this was done when free labour sugar was not to be had. A less sacrifice was now demanded of the British public. It was simply asked of them to prefer free-labour to slave-labour sugar, coffee, cotton, rice, &c. This he believed they would many of them do. He had been encouraged at Frankfort, while visiting that city as a delegate to the Peace Congress, by the request of the chief magistrate that an anti-slavery meeting should be held. This suggestion was carried out, and it was resolved that free-labour stores should be established in Germany. Mr. Garnet exhibited cottons and cotton prints the products of free labour, now on sale in Newcastle, Gateshead, and elsewhere. There were British colonies, he said, which could produce cotton with even more advantage than the United States; and he trusted that every encouragement would be given by Britons to this branch of British industry. (Applause.) Mr. G., of whose address we give but a bare outline, resumed his seat amidst loud cheers, -- We find that we have omitted to allude to one of the dark features of American slavery, presented by Mr. Garnet the law by which the negro child is bound to follow the fortunes, not of its father, but of its mother. If the mother was born free, so was the child. The motives of the lawmaker was obvious. If, the father being free, the child was free also, the licentious slaveholder would lose much "property." It was therefore decreed that the child must be a slave, if its mother was a slave; and hence there were many men and women in bondage who were as fair as any of the ladies and gentlemen whom he had the honour of addressing. In illustration of this portion of his lecture, Mr. Garnet exhibited several daguerrotype portraits of fugitive slave-girls, "guiltless of a skin not coloured like our own;" yet all the Saxon blood that circles in their vein does not atone, in the eye of the American, for the slight remaining taint of the African. At the close of the meeting, a collection was made in aid of its object; and thanks having been voted to Mr. Anderson, and to the trustees for the use of the room, a benediction was pronounced and the proceedings closed. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Henry Highland Garnet Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Anti-Slavery Reporter  Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10.01.1850 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 New York; 6.1.1853 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource From the N.Y. Tribune. Free Produce. MEETING OF THE "FREE PRODUCE ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS OF NEW YORK, YEARLY MEETING." To the Editor of the N.Y. Tribune This association wes its existence to a belief entertained by its members in the doctrine: "Who gives the motive makes his brother's sin his own"; and under this belief they feel bound to withold the money patronage that operates as such a powerful motive to the slaveholder to retain his hold upon the slave, regardless of the remonstrances so frequently addressed to him. They believe that it is equally correct to say "the demand is parent of the supply," when applied to the commercial intercourse existing between the slave holder and the consumers of slave-grown productions as in the most familiar illustration of that maxim--"that Cotton growing and Slavery are cause and effect, and that the growth of the latter has been coincident with the consumption of the former." And in these resolutions they are strengthened by a part of the discipline of their own religious body, viz: "Friends are advised to avoid any act by which the right of Slavery is acknowledged." Under these convictions they are seeking for opportunities to supply themselves with such dry-goods and groceries, the produce of free labor, that are generally the result of slave labor. They do not flatter themselves that the few hundred dollars they are employing in this way will do much toward overturning the gigantic institution they desire to see abolished, but if by these means they can enable some others as well as themselves to dissolve the guilty partnership existing between the producrs and consumers of slave-grown productions, their labor will note be in vain. The meeting was held at the Friends meeting-house, Orchard-st. on the evening of the 1st. inst., and attended by Lewis Tappan of this City and Samuel Rhoades of Philadelphia, both of whom addressed the meeting and furnished information of a highly interesting character, confirming the statements, in The Tribune of the 30th. and other papers, relative to the favorable views entertained by Prof. and Mrs. Stowe, of this place, of carrying out the resolution to have "No union with slaveholders." The members of the Association are no friends to coercive measures, but they claim the right of refusing to purchase the mutton of stolen sheep, and of exercising the same privilege when the blood-stained cotton of Slavery is offered to them, and of supplying their wardrobe and their tables with the cotton, sugar, or rice, the result of paid labor. In their humble effort to make their practices agree with their protestations against Slavery, they are cheered by the favorable reception the plan is receiving in England and in many parts of the United States. The annual report of the Association contains some interesting details, which the limits of a newspaper will probably exclude. If the friends of the slave is in earnest in his resolution to have "No union with slaveholders," let him touch not, taste not, handle not the productions of slave labor. H. Miles Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Henry Miles Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Anti-Slavery Bugle 8:39, p. 1 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6.18.1853 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 COLORED FREE PRODUCE SOCIETY Description An account of the resource The circumstances of a society having been organized some months since in Philadelphia, under the above title, has been mentioned before in this work. The following is the preamble to their Constitution. We should be glad to insert the articles themselves, but have not room to spare at present. This association may be considered auxiliary to the Pennsylvania Free Produce Society, the proceedings of which have been heretofore noticed. "Whereas, the Constitution of the United States expressly declares, that "all men are born free and equal," but in consequence of the superior wealth and influence of the white population, they have deemed themselves justifiable in establishing and pursuing the notorious practice of holding their colored brethren, who are the children of the same Almighty Parent, and possesed of the same feelings with themselves, mental and physical, in the most abject servitude and oppression--trafficking in their flesh, separating parent from child, husband from wife, and brother from sister, without any regard to those social and domestic enjoyments, which they themselves profess to esteem so highly: And, whereas, it is well ascertained, that self-interest will induce individuals to perform acts for which reason and humanity have long been appealed to in vain; and as every individual who uses the produce of slave labor encourages the slave-holder, becomes also a participator in his wickedness, and rivets the chains of the oppressed more firmly: And, whereas, the substituting of the produce of freemen for that of slaves, is a sure method of lessening the value of slave-labor and destroying the gains of the hardened oppressor, and will, therefore, induce him sooner or later, to restore to the oppressed those inalienable rights, of which they have been so cruelly and unjustly deprived: And, moreover, as it particularly becomes us, who are more closely allied to the sons of Africa, to use our influence to change their present degraded condition, and restore them to the rank which nature and nature's God designed they should occupy: Therefore, we, whose names are hereunto subscribed, agree to form ourselves into an association, to be called the "Colored Free Produce Society of Pennsylvania," that we may the more easily obtain and impart such information, connected with this subjct, as may promote the objects above stated: and for the furtherance of these views we adopt for our government the following Constitution." The annexed proceedings of a meeting of the association, are inserted at the request of the officers thereof. A stated meeting of the Colored, Free Produce Society, was held in Philadelphia, on the evening of the 18th of April, 1831. The meeting was honored by the presence of several of our white friends, who are members of a similar institution. The House being organized, business commenced by calling the roll, after which the quarterly contributions were taken up. The minutes of the preceeding meeting were then read by the Secretary; and the minutes of the corresponding committee were read by their Secretary. A report being presented by the corresponding committee, on motion it was read & adopted. A communication was handed in by one of our white friends:--which was also read. The meeting was then addressed, by Mr. Lundy; he stated many important things, for our encouragement; he was followed by another gentleman, with some very salutary remarks. It was, on motion, resolved, That this society appropriate ten dollars, to be added to the premium offered for Rice, raised by free labor. On motion, resolved, that the thanks of this meeting be given to those white friends, who have honored us with their presence and advice. JAMES CORNISH, Secretary. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. The committee to whom was referred the preparation of a report, relative to the proceedings of the colored Free Produce Society, respectfully state: That they have had the subject under consideration, and cannot regard it in any other light than that of the deepest interest to us--because it looks forward to the annihilation of a practice, which has long been regarded by some of the most enlightened nations in Europe, as piratical, unjust, and anti-christian, in its operations--because it deprives man of those privileges which are inseparable from his constitutional habits, for no other reason than the unalterable color of his skin. Your committee has the satisfaction to observe, that since the formation of this society, the demand and consumption of the articles of Free Produce have exceeded the most sanguine expectations of its friends; and as an evidence of this, we learn, by a statement of Mr. James L. Pierce, a gentleman who is extensively engaged in the sale of articles of Free Produce, that the sales within the last 18 months have been between five and six thousand dollars.--And so warmly have some of the members of this society entered into the spirit of the undertaking, that from 23 to 50 lbs of free sugar have been purchased at a time for family consumption.--And one of them has commenced the sale of Free Cotton articles, upon a small scale. Your committee would further mention, that they hav had repeated interviews with the members of the white Free Produce Society, from which they have drived much satisfaction and information. Your committee humbly hope that they have fulfilled the duty assigned them--and, therefore beg to be discharged. FREDERICK A. HINTON ROBT. PURVIS. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Cornish, Frederick A. Hinton, Robert Purvis Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Genius of Universal Emancipation 2:1, p. 6 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5.1831 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; 10.15.1844 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource AMERICAN FREE PRODUCE ASSOCIATION. The sixth annual meeting of the society will be held in Philadelphia, on the 15th of Tenth month. To all persons interested in supplying themselves with productions free from the guilt of Oppression,--and to the members of the Anti-Slavery Societies, an earnest invitation is given to be present at this meeting. To the former that they may effectively aid in carrying on a work which they consider essential to secure a conscience void of offence toward God and man--to the Abolitionists who do not refrain from the use of slave labor products that they may learn--that in this UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS, they are upholding a system which they wish to destroy. JAMES MOTT, Ch'n. Ex. Com. Philadelphia, 9th mo. 18th., 1844. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Mott Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National Anti-Slavery Standard 5:19, p. 75 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10.10.1844 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 GENEVA, January 15th, 1839. Description An account of the resource For the Colored American. GENEVA, January 15th, 1839. Dear Brother Cornish, The following is transmitted to you for publication in your valuable paper. The annual meeting of the Geneva Colored Anti-Slavery Society, was held on the 7th January, 1839; Anthony Freeman, President, in the chair. The meeting was opened with prayer by Mr. Salaby Hardy. The report was then read and adopted. The following officers were then elected for the ensuing year. REV. NATHAN CONDOL, President. A. FREEMAN, ) Vice JOHN DUFFIN,) Presidents. J.W. DUFFIN, Secretary A. LUCAS, Treasurer. Samuel Condol, Philip Gillian, John Jones, T. Lee, J. Brown - Executive Committee. John Bland, Esq. Collector. After some amendments to the constitutions, the following resolution was offered by John Brown: Resolved, That we will bless God for such of our beloved sisters as have united their labors with ours, and that we earnestly invite every colored female amongst us, who feels for female honor, for human happiness and virtue, and for God's holy law, to join her prayers and efforts with ours in behalf of the suffering and dumb. Rev. Nathan Condol, offered the following resolution: Resolved, That it is the duty of every Colored American to respect each other, and in this way he will do more for their brethren than in any other way. On motion of J.W. Duffin, Resolved, That we invite the members of this society, to prayerfully and diligently ponder the question, whether they can innocently or consistently use the products of slave labor. The meeting, though not fully attended, was one of unusual interest; a number were added to the society; over forty dollars was pledged for the cause this year, some of which was paid on the spot; had the society been fully attended, we have no doubt but twice that amount could have been raised. The cause is advancing amongst us, we are beginning to feel more and more for those in bonds as bound with them. Our beloved sisters, who are connected with this society, are doing much to push forward this cause - would to God that the hearts of our sisters everywhere, were enlisted on the side of the thousands of their sex, who are robbed and oppressed. We begin to experience the usefulness of the Colored American, we believe that it has done much in elevating us as a people, and we look forward to the time when this little sheet will be ably sustained, not only by us but by everyone who feels for the well-being of our race, and if needs be other publications brought into the field to help carry forward the cause of truth and justice. Let me say in conclusion that our people in these parts are anxious to have a convention of the people of color, to be held at some convenient time and place during the coming summer. Would it not be to our advantage to meet together and deliberate upon these subjects that so intimately concerns us, and devise ways and means for our own elevation and improvement, and for the good of those in bonds? Yours for the oppressed, JAMES W. DUFFIN, Sec. of G.C.A. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James W. Duffin 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 2.2.1839 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 New York; 8.28.1842 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource UNION FREE PRODUCE SOCIETY. At the annual meeting of the Union Free Produce Society, the 28th of the 8th mo. 1842, the following persons were elected officers for the ensuing year, viz--President, Eli Hambleton--Vice Presidents, Evan Bolton, and Hannah Kent--Recording Secretary, Benjamin Kent--Corresponding Secretary, Alic E. Hambleton--Treasurer, E. Kent--Acting Committee, Wm. Brosius, Daniel Kent, jr. Sarah Hambleton, Rachel Sharpless, and Thomas Hambleton. On motion, the following were appointed delegates to the annual meeting of the American Free Produce Society, in the 10th month next, viz--Elizabeth Kent, Alice E. Hambleton, Eli Hambleton, Thomas Whitson, Mahlon Brosius, and Sarah Hambleton. The following resolution was offered, partially discussed, and referred to next meeting, viz: Resolved, That the same principle which required the Society of Friends to disown their members for the hiring of slaves, would, with equal force, require them to abstain from the produce of the slaves' labor.  JOHN HAMBLETON, Rec. Sec'y. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Hambleton Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National Anti-Slavery Standard 3:17, p. 3 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9.29.1842 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 Salem Anti-Slavery Fair Description An account of the resource The manner in which the Fair is to be conducted in Salem, as advertised below, will commend it to the approbation and patronage of all classes. May the sale of the articles be in proportion to the claims of that cause to which the proceeds are to be applied!—Then not a single article will remain unsold. <sec-title>SALEM ANTI-SLAVERY FAIR.</sec-title> The Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society respectfully give notice that their annual sale will be held at the Masonic Hall in Washington Street, (very near the eastern rail road depot,) to commence on Christmas afternoon, at 2 o'clock, and continue through the succeeding day and evening. The friends of emancipation, generally, are cordially invited to be present. No labor or sacrifice will be spared to render this sale rich, elegant, and in every way worthy of patronage. An extensive variety of useful articles will be offered, embracing almost every small article of gentlemen's, ladies', and children's wear and use. Anti-Slavery books, shells, flowers, and dolls, very splendid, some in fashionable, and others in rich, friendly attire. Rug work. Among the great variety of ornamental articles, will be found many ingenious exhibitions of slavery, in its most unkindly and touching aspects. Anti-Slavery devices and mottos of every description, in velvet embroidery, silk, bead and rug work—some articles very splendid. The refreshment stand will be found to contain every article of common, and many of rich and rare, fruit and confectionary; (free labor.) As the Society proposes to hold this fair annually, until emancipation, diligent care will be taken to secure the favorable notice of the community. The useful articles will be thoroughly made,—indifferent needle-work being suppressed. The lavishness and extravagant usages which have been practised and encouraged in some instances in fairs for benevolent purposes, will be strictly avoided. The articles will never exceed, and in some cases will fall much below the usual cost. Change will be accurately returned. The funds will be promptly appropriated to the Anti-slavery cause. In what specific manner, has not yet been considered. In behalf of the Committee, L.L. DODGE, Secretary. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Liberator Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12.21.1838 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource L.L. Dodge