1 10 250 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 Advertisements 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 Perkins & Town (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource FREE LABOR GROCERIES. - See advertisement in another column of Perkins & Town's, free labor Tea and Sugar store 141 Bowery. Messrs Perkins & Town are friends of our cause and keep constantly on hand free labor Molasses, Sugar , Rice and Coffee, which can be relied upon as really free , of an excellent quality and very cheap. Our people and the friends of the slave generally ought to make it a matter of conscience not to partake of the slaveholders deeds by eating of the fruits of slave labor . We ought to forego a little distance to purchase such articles. We invite our people to give them a call and examine for themselves. Friends from the country will have their orders attended to with care. Remember the No. 141 Bowery. 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 10.10.1840 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 Advertisements 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 Perkins and Towne (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource FREE LABOR sugar , molasses, coffee, rice, &c. constantly for sale in lots to suit purchasers, at the Sugar Store, 141 Bowery, by PERKINS & TOWNE Sugar , Tea, & Coffee Dealers. N.B. Goods carefully put up and set at any part of the city or country. 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 6.15.1839 https://productsoffreelabor.com/files/original/f1f12d3b0cfd980a5c982abc7f4d82eb.jpeg 2a568e0265da67e892037d035f18f30a 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 Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. 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 Free Labor Movement (Article) Description An account of the resource One of the saddest features of American Slavery, is its mournful reaction upon the whole country, both north and south. Its influence surrounds us like the atmosphere; we gather around the social board, and one of the first things which meets our gaze, is some luxury wrung from the reluctant, trembling hands of the crushed and weary slave. We enter the wardrobe and the sighs and groans of the slave are lingering around the seams of our clothes, and floating amid the folds of our garments. But who will say, when Carolina's rice, with snowy whiteness, tempts the taste, perhaps the hands that gathered this were severed form some loved and lost embrace? Who will gaze upon the manufactured cotton, and see the stain, the stain of blood and tears upon its warp and woof? Who will look beneath the delicate proportions of the sugar cane, and see the stinging ad clotted lash, and on their surface, trace the agony of years? Our moral influence against slavery must be weakened, our testimony diluted, if, while we denounce slavery as robbery of the basest kind, oppression of the most shameful stamp, an aggression upon the very citadel of life, robbing a human heart of its liberty and fights, its energies and manhood, we are constantly demanding rice from the swaps, cotton form the plantations and sugar from the deadly mills, even if every rood and acre, on which they grew, had been the scene of outrage, injustice, and crime, even if the soil on which they were raised, were red with blood and wet with servile tears, even if desolate bosoms were trampled upon to produce them, bleeding, or weary hearts crushed to procure them. Taking this view of the matter, we may hail the free labor movement, as a harbinger of hope, and ensign of progress, and a means of proving the consistency of our principles, and the earnestness of our zeal. By so-doing we may prove to the south, that we not only denounce slavery as robbery and piracy, but we are endeavoring to shake our hands from sharing in its spoils, and participating in its crimes. By so doing may we not set influences at work to girdle the deadly upas of slavery, and compel it to wither and die, for want of sustenance and support? And under the auspices of free and intelligent labor , the south may yet blossom and bloom like the rose, and slavery cease to write upon the land, cursed is the ground for my sake. FRANCIS ELLEN WATKINS. LEWISTON, Me., 1855. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <em>Frederick Douglass' Paper</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6.29.1855 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 Advertisements 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 George W. Taylor (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource NEW GOODS just received. General reduction in prices. Fine 4-4 Prints, various styles. New styles of Prints of medium quality, usual width. Fine and wide Paper Muslins. Also Colored Cambrics. Curtain Calico. Superior fine Chintz Umbrellas. Oil Cloths. Satinets, good and cheap. Also on hand, mostly at reduced prices, Ginghams, various qualities and styles. Fine and heavy Shirting, Sheetings, and Pillow Muslins. Striped Cambrics. Fine 6-4 Plaid Muslin. Muslin de Laine, plain and neatly figured, all wool. Linens, warranted free from cotton. Flannels 4-4 good and price low. Canton flannels, white and colored. Table Diaper and Cloths, of different styles. Apron and Furniture Check. Cotton Handkerchiefs. Cotton Twilled Pantaloon Stuffs. Also Linen Drilling, &c. Long and half Hose, fine and heavy. Knitting Cotton, various Nos., bleached, brown, and colored. Wadding, white and colored Cotton Laps. Also, Refined Loaf, Crushed, and Pulverized Sugar . Brown Sugar , good quality, of various grades. The whole stock exclusively Free Labor Goods, to which the Subscriber would invite the attention of country merchants, as well as his friends and the public generally. Much pains is taken by the Managers of the Free Produce Association, to assist the Subscriber to enlarge the assortment from time to time. GEORGE W. TAYLOR. Northwest corner Fifth and Cherry-sts. Philadelphia 2d mo. 1st, 1848. 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 6.30.1848 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 Advertisements 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 L.B. & WM. H. Allen. (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource THE CHEAPEST Tea, Sugar , and Coffee Store west of the Bowery at No. 293 Spring Street, between Greenwich and Washington Streets, on the right hand side leading to the river. The subscribers would inform their colored friends, that they have removed their Store from 141 Centre Street to the above place, and keep constantly on hand an assortment of FREE LABOR SUGAR , Teas, Coffee, Spices, &c. and will dispose of them at LOWER RATES that can be purchased at any other place. Boarding House Keepers and heads of families are invited to call and examine our goods before purchasing elsewhere. Goods sent to any part of the city free of expense. L.B. & WM. H. ALLEN, 293 SPRING St. 293 right hand side leading to the river. 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 7.13.1839 https://productsoffreelabor.com/files/original/c827433f7608258158b7c6272e31afc9.jpg 7f25bc9bbb8f8308d0769fdeece165ee 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 Advertisements 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 Ezra Towne (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource A LARGE assortment of Dry Goods and Groceries, free from the stain of Slavery, for sale by EZRA TOWNE, Agent, Oct. 13 - 7t 207 Fulton street, New York. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <em>The National Era</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10.13.1853 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 Advertisements 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 George W. Taylor (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource FREE PRODUCE STORE , Wholesale and Retail, north west corner of Fifth and Cherry streets, Philadelphia, (late Joel Fisher's.) The subscriber, having procured a new stock of Dry Goods and Groceries, in addition to that purchased by Joel Fisher, all of which may be relied on as the product of Free Labor , now offers them for sale at the above place. He respectfully invites the patronage of those who give a preference to such goods, and of his friends and the public generally. Being the wholesale and retail agent of the Free Produce Association of Friends, and the retail agent of the American Free Produce Association, for the sale of the cotton goods manufactured by those associations, he will be prepared to furnish a greater variety of Dry Goods than has heretofore been offered at this establishment. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The National Era Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3.4.1847 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 Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. 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 Produce Convention (Article) Description An account of the resource "In accordance with previous notice a number of friends of abstinence from the productions of Slavery, met in Convention at Salem, Union Co., Ia., 11th mo. 19th, 1850. The meeting was organized by the appointment of Wm. Beard President, Joel Parker and Thomas Freeman Vice Presidents, and Walter Edgerton and Reuben Macy Secretaries. On motion, a committee of seven was appointed to prepare business for the action of this meeting. The following persons constituted said committee, viz: Walter Edgerton, Wm. H. Brisbane, Levi Coffin, Wm. Hough, Jonathan Swain, Sarah Franklin, Jemmima Maxwell and Nathan Thomas. After the reading of a chapter from the sacred volume, and a solemn pause, an excellent letter from Judge Jay to the colored citizens of New York, relative to the bearing of the infamous Fugitive Slave Law upon the colored population was read, and also a letter from H.H. Garnet, a black man, who is now advocating the cause of abstinence from Slave-grown produce in England, to the editor of the ""Non-Slaveholder,"" setting forth the cheering progress of the cause in that country. On motion, Wm. H. Brisbane of Cincinnati, was called upon to address the meeting, who came forward and interested the audience in an able and impressive manner till the close of the session. On motion, the Convention adjourned till 5 o'clock this evening. EVENING SESSION. The Convention met according to adjournment, - the President in the chair. The Committee on business through its chairman reported the following preamble and resolutions, which were separately taken up, discussed and unanimously adopted: Whereas, Slavery is an evil professedly deprecated by the great mass of the christian community, especially in the non-slaveholding portion of our country; Therefore, 1. Resolved, That it becomes our imperative duty, if we would maintain any character for consistency, to avoid as much as practicable giving any countenance or support to that most wicked institution. 2. Resolved, That the African Slave Trade - the wars, and incalculable loss of human life incident thereon - the horrors of the ""middle passage"" in the Slaver - the unutterable agony of tens of thousands of our fellow-men and women as they cross the briny deep, the victims of the man-thief's cupidity, together with the scarcely less infamous but legalized traffic in the bodies and souls of men carried on in the midst of this liberty-loving Republic! the tearing asunder of husbands and wives, parents and children, and the application of the chain, the iron collar, the hand-cuff, the knotted-lash and branding-iron, to the quivering flesh of the unfortunate who have fallen among thieves, and all the rest of the pharaphernalia of human torture which the ingenuity of the most inhuman tyrant can invent, depend almost, if not exclusively upon the consumption of the produce of the labor of the slave; Therefore: 3. Resolved, That the consumers of slave produce are the primary supporters of this most infamous scheme from first to last. 4. Resolved, That with these views it is our duty to endeavor to put in train a set of measures by which we can be furnished with articles of consumption in common use free from the blood of the slave, and that we appoint a committee who shall digest a plan of operations and present it to a future session of the convention. The following persons were appointed a committee as contemplated in the above resolution, viz: Walter Edgerton, Levi Coffin, Nathan Thomas, Joel Parker, and Dr. Brisbane. On motion, adjourned till 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. MORNING SESSION. Eleventh mo. 20th, pursuant to adjournment the Convention again met - the president in the chair. The committee on business reported the following resolution which was unanimously adopted. Resolved, That we recognize the Non-Slaveholder as an able and efficient advocate of the abstinence cause, and would therefore recommend it to the friends of that cause, and solicit for it their hearty patronage. The Committee to digest and propose a plan by which we may be furnished with articles of consumption in common use free from the blood of the slave, reported the following resolutions. Resolved, That this Convention recommend the formation of a joint stock company raised upon shares of five dollars each to be under the control of twelve directors, and to be regularly chartered, for the establishment of a wholesale free -produce store in Cincinnati, Ohio. Resolved, That Dr. Brisbane, Thos. Freeman, Samuel Lewis, Levi Coffin, Thomas Franklin and Richard Gaines, be a committee to make arrangements to carry the foregoing plan into execution, to - detail such regulations as may be necessary for the formation of said company upon the most efficient principles, and shall have power to fill all vacancies which may occur in their own body and are directed to prosecute the concern till the company is duly formed, and stock sufficiently taken to accomplish the above object. Resolved, That the Fugitive Slave Law is so wicked, barbarous and unjust in its features and requirements, that no good honest citizens can without disgracing himself yield the slightest obedience to it. On motion adjourned till early candle-lighting, this evening. EVENING SESSION. At early candle-lighting the convention met. On motion, Resolved that the Secretary be directed to forward the proceedings of this Convention to the True Democrat, the Anti-Slavery Bugle and Ohio Standard for publication. On motion, adjourned sine die . WM. BEARD, PRES'T. W. EDGERTON, Sec'y." 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 1.2.1851 https://productsoffreelabor.com/files/original/fd5fb0941f3b2cce1468ebdf787acf5e.jpg 6a09b133239b0fd103e335f257efad5d https://productsoffreelabor.com/files/original/8e2b40f34454011d886cda65bef07364.jpg 000701017eb12a5610ecfeb123a8ad40 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 Poetry 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 (Poem) Subject The topic of the resource Poem Description An account of the resource I wear an easy garment, O’er it no toiling slave Wept tears of hopeless anguish, In his passage to the grave. And from its ample folds Shall rise no cry to God, Upon its warp and woof shall be No stain of tears and blood. Oh, lightly shall it press my form, Unladened with a sigh, I shall not ‘mid its rustling hear, Some sad despairing cry. This fabric is too light to bear The weight of bondsmen’s tears, I shall not in its texture trace The agony of years. Too light to bear a smother’d sigh, From some lorn woman’s heart, Whose only wreath of household love Is rudely torn apart. Then lightly shall it press my form, Unburden’d by a sigh; And from its seams and folds shall rise, No voice to pierce the sky, And witness at the throne of God, In language deep and strong, That I have nerv’d Oppression’s hand, For deeds of guilt and wrong. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 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 Advertisements 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 G.B. Stebbins (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource Free Labor Groceries. I HAVE just received, and shall keep constantly on hand, a good assortment of Brown and White Sugars , Molasses, Rice, and Coffee, All the products of Free Labor. Those in want of such goods are invited to purchase, and can be assured of the genuineness of the articles. G.B. STEBBINS, 133, Main, corner of North street. Rochester, Dec. 1, 1848. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <em>The North Star</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12.1.1848