10 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 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 Labor Produce--High Compliment to the Black Planters Description An account of the resource FREE LABOR PRODUCE—HIGH COMPLIMENT TO THE BLACK PLANTERS OF ST. CROIX. At this time, when the great question of the capability of free blacks to maintain themselves and successfully conduct business is more widely mooted than ever, it may not be uninteresting to mention that the cargo of sugar and molasses received at this port in the L.P. Snow, and sold by auction on Thursday last, the 29th ult., was pronounced by the company present to be <xsl-text></xsl-text>in finer order and better packed than any similar cargo ever offered for sale in Boston. <xsl-text></xsl-text>The product was wholly the labor of free blacks in the Island of St Croix, and brought prices which indicated its excellence—the sugar at $8 50 a $8 80 per hundred lbs., and the molasses at 881/4 a 40 1/2c per gallon. Chenery & Co. were the consignees of this cargo, and were generally felicitated upon the handsome manner in which their correspondents sent their produce to market.— <xsl-text></xsl-text>Boston Transcript, June <xsl-text></xsl-text>3 <xsl-text></xsl-text>d. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Liberator, reprinted from Boston Transcript Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6.13.1862 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 Labor Productions. Description An account of the resource In our advertising department, our readers will find the card of our friends Hoag & Wood, 377 Pearl street, New York. Having recently had the pleasure of looking over their large assortment of excellent goods, we feel more than willing to recommend them to all who would prefer to encourage free rather than slave labor. To decided advocates of universal freedom, it would seem scarcely necessary to speak of the propriety of a discrimination of this nature. Were all the professed friends of Freedom in the United States to unite in refusing to consume or traffic in the productions of slave labor, it can scarcely be doubted that such a refusal would directly affect the market value of these fruits of toil unrequited. The effect of the refusal of the Society of Friends and others in Great Britain to consume slave-grown sugars in hastening the abolition of the slave trade and slavery, itself is matter of history. The personal example, moreover, has a moral power, which is by no means to be overlooked. The Diary of the late excellent William Allen, the friend and coadjutor of Clarkson and Wilberforce, contains the following entry, made when its author was but nineteen years of age, and to which he steadfastly adhered for forty-five years, until the complete abolition of British colonial slavery: "When I reflect upon the tyranny and oppression exercised by my countrymen towards the poor Africans, and the many thousands yearly murdered in the disgraceful slave trade, I can but be a zealous opposer of slavery; and, indeed, I have been so for a long time, as far as lay in my power; yet one step further may be taken by me, which is wanting to COMPLETE my testimony in this respect, and which, if universally adopted, would inevitably put a stop to this enormous evil--and that is, disusing those commodities procured by the labor of slaves. And as sugar is, undoubtedly, one of the chief, I resolve, through Divine assistance, to persevere in the disuse of it until the slave trade shall be abolished." A pleasing instance of the influence of this testimony on the part of William Allen is given by the editors of his "Life and Correspondence." "When George W. Alexander visited Holland in 1844, to promote the abolition of slavery by the Dutch Government, P. Elout, a judge, and person of high consideration at the Hague, in conversation on the subject of slavery, said 'It is to William Allen I attribute all I have felt and done for the cause of the slave. When he was at the Hague, many years since, I was invited, together with a number of serious individuals, to take tea with him. I was then quite a youth. He took no sugar with his tea, which surprised me. I was more surprised by the reason he gave for this. He told the company that he had long abstained from the use of it, because he could not, wth peace of mind, partake of that as a gratification, for which thousands of innocent people were compelled to labor in cruel and hopeless bondage. I was struck with this example of self-denial, by so great a man as I thought him to be, in a thing so seemingly small in itself, and I was led to consider how great must be the evil of a system which could make so deep and so religious an impression upon his feelings. From that period my own sentiments have been engaged in the cause of the negro, and my efforts given to procure their emancipation in the colonies of Holland.'" It gives use pleasure to learn that efficient measures are in train to ascertain the amount of cotton, sugar, rice, &c., now cultivated in the United States by free or paid labor, and to procure, as far as may be, a supply of such products, to meet the growing demand for them. The non-slaveholders of the South--the poor white laborers--who have hitherto found it difficult to compete with their slaveholding neighbors, will not fail to see the advantage of this movement to themselves. The editors of the "Non-Slaveholder," in a recent article on this subject, state, as the result of actual investigation, that a large amount of free-grown cotton is already produced in the Southern States. "Let it," they say, "be selected to the exclusion of the slave-grown, by the friends of the slave, at a slightly advanced cost, if necessary, and the energies of the millions of non-slaveholder who are now degraded and oppressed by a small slaveholding oligarchy, will be aroused and stimulated to exertions which, directly and indirectly operating on the interests and the conscience of the slaveholders, and combined with foreign action and a similar course in respect to the other staple productions of slave labor, will unquestionably put an end to slavery and the slave trade." J.G.W. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National Era 2:65, p. 49 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3.30.1848 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource J.G.W. (John Greenleaf Whittier) 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 Labor Products Description An account of the resource We are truly glad to perceive that anti-slavery men are more generally waking up to the duty of abstaining from the products of slave labor. "By their fruits shall ye know them." Goods uncontaminated by the blood and tears of the bondman, may be obtained in this city, as advertised in our columns. It should be remembered that this is the lever which has been so effectual in moving public opinion in England. Let Christians ponder on a coming judgment, and do unto others as they would that they should do unto them. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reprinted from New York Emancipator Genius of Universal Emancipation 3:12, p. 191 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10.1833 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 Labor Products Description An account of the resource FREE LABOR PRODUCTS The disposition to discourage slave labor is evidently gaining ground amongst those who deem slavery a SIN, and consequently, feel that Christians ought in no way or manner to participate in the abomination. A circumstance of the kind came under the notice of the writer during the last week. A respectable shoe manufacturer called at my manufactory, and enquired if I had any <xsl-text></xsl-text>Philadelphia <xsl-text></xsl-text>Sole Leather for sale. I replied, I had none of the particular kind he named on hand, but had a plenty of Baltimore Leather. Oh, says he, that wont answer; I have enough of that myself, but my workmen wont use it. They are such thorough-going <xsl-text></xsl-text>abolitionists <xsl-text></xsl-text>that they will not work on leather which they know comes from a slave State, and which, of course, they suppose has been made by the labor of slaves!! This was a novel idea to me. I had heard of free labor Sugar and Cotton and Rice, but had never heard the term applied to the article in question. I cannot but admire <xsl-text></xsl-text>the spirit <xsl-text></xsl-text>of those men who thus decline in their humble way to encourage compulsory and unpaid labor; they undoubtedly act consistently with their principles, and if not ranked in fame with Wilberforce and Clarkson and Thompson, are yet sincere and genuine philanthropists. A DEALER. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource A DEALER 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 5.2.1835 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 Free Labor Shoes (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource FREE LABOR SHOES. THE SUBSCRIBER manufactures LADIES' Bags AND SHOES, of superior quality, and will supply them on reasonable terms. He intends entirely to avoid the use of materials produced by the unrequited labor of the slave. WM. BASSETT. Lynn, Mass., 11 mo. 9, 1838. 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 3.1.1839 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 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 Free Labor Store in Mount Pleasant (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource We now have the satisfaction definitely to inform the friends of the Free Produce cause in Ohio, that Joseph Williams, having recently procured a stock of Free Labour Goods from the store in this city, has opened a Free Produce Store at Mount Pleasant, and intends keeping no other than the products of free labour. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Non-Slaveholder 3:8, p. 181 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 08.01.1848 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 Free Labor Warehouse Description An account of the resource Free Labor Associations, Dealers in Free Labor goods, and individuals wishing to obtain for their own consumption the products of free labor, are hereby informed that there is now in stock, a large and increasing variety of cotton fabrics, such as Prints, Ginghams, Lawns, Colored Cambrics, Paper Muslins, Shirting and Sheetings of different grades, bleached and unbleached, Drillings and Canton Flannels, brown, bleached and colored, both light and heavy, Extra Drills for bagging and wagon covers, Summer Pant Stuffs, Hosiery, fine and heavy, Knitting Cotton, in variety, Sewing Cotton, white and colored, Table Oil Cloths, new and beautiful styles, &c., &c. Damask Table Cloths will shorty be in store. A number of articles in flax, as Shirting Linen, Long Lawns, Table Cloths, Toweling, Crash, Thread, Tapes, &c., &c. Of Cotton and Wool mixed; Satinets, Tiogas, Kentucky Jeans, Flannels, &c. Cashmerettes in course of preparation. For sale low, by the piece, a lot of very neat Printed Linen Cambrics; also, in great variety, a lot of Printed Poplins. The usual variety of GROCERIES, viz., Crushed and Pulverised Sugars, Muscovados of good quality, Syrup, Coffee, Chocolate, including a very superior Caracas, Cocoa, Rice, &c. TEAS, well selected and fine; Spices, Confectionery, &c. Patterns and Samples sent to order. GEO. W. TAYLOR N.W. cor. of 5th and Cherry sts. Address Letters to Box 2170 Philadelphia Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Friends' Review; a Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal 9:21, p. 331 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2.2.1856 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George W. Taylor 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 Labor. Description An account of the resource Though we may differ in sentiment, yet if we speak and act with submission, it is no trespass upon the rights of individuals of the quiet society, to offer interchanges of thought, or feelings. The fear which suggests to our conservatism the need of placing defenses around the truth, is, perhaps, as dangerous an element as innovation. We are safe only, and only free, in that pure love which casts out all fear. I have felt that allusion may be made to a subject that has claimed the attention of many just and consistent persons through two or three generations past, and which seems to rather increase than otherwise; although it has not, and never may become a testimony of the Society, as a body. I allude to the concern to avoid the use of the products of the slave, or unpaid labor. That such a concern is in the abstract right, none can deny. It might seem that all who come to hear this inspoken mandate, "Be ye perfect," would feel its force as an individual requisition; yet, as it is for us not to judge, perhaps it may be otherwise. The amount of encouragement that is given to free labor by a demand for its products, has not so far as I remember, been clearly stated. It seems to me, that it would not only prove, as a record of facts, the superiority [?] freedom, but would develop a quiet force, that without war or turmoil, would raze the ever tottering fabric of oppression to its foundation. Now, that a Friend of Philadelphia not only procures free groceries of every description needed, but has in operation a cotton manufactory which supplies every essential article of that material, it seems that the scruples of those who are thus concerned, may be kept inviolate; particularly as those goods are offered at wholesale, as well as retail, and can be sent to any part of the country, where desired. S.A. Woodstown. N.J. 9 mo. 1855. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Friends' Intelligencer 12:29, p. 458 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10.6.1855 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource S.A. 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 Labor. Description An account of the resource Free Labor. --- The more we dwell upon the varied and extended significance of this term, and more truthfully and completely it seems to define and comprehend the ideas and sentiments embraced and represented in the anti-slavery movement. To chattelize man for his labor has been the great temptation and incentive to the wicked cupidity of his fellow. To obtain his toil without compensation is the motive which has rifled Africa to myriads of human beings, and perpetrated the horrors of the "middle passage," Were it not for this single object, slavery could not exist for a moment. To emancipate, to free labor, involves all that is embraced in the abolition of slavery. It expresses more than this to our mind. It puts forth a grand idea, intelligible to all the millions of the human race who earn their bread by the sweat of the brow. Labor-patient, persevering, self-rewarding, hopeful and true - is, we believe, one of the crown dignities of humanity. If it be true, that one of the elements of the air we breathe is so vital to our existence, that we could not live an hour should it be withdrawn or tainted, it is equally true that manual labor is as vital an element of the prosperity of any community. Slavery is the most unmitigated and degrading indignity that can be inflicted on labor. It is more than a wrong, more than a cruelty; for the victims of mere wrong and cruelty often command the honor and respect, as well as sympathy of mankind. But slavery degrades, abases labor to the condition of the brute beast of burden; hence, in the countries in which it exists, every occupation involving labor is smutched with a shade of shame; hence, those born in such countries to the necessity of labor, if they have any feeling of self-respect beating in their bosoms, are forced to flee beyond the limits of the curse. But if this eclipse be total over the land of bondage, it is partial everywhere. No one may say how the estimation in which labor was held in the freest country in the world has been affected by the existence of slavery. No one may say by how many or by how few links of association the most industrious and virtuous artisan in New England or Old England is connected with the condition of the slave in the rice fields of Carolina. No one may say how insidiously and widely the idea is working its way into the political and industrial economies of the freest nations, that the condition of slavery must, somehow, be accepted as the bass line, the point of departure of their operations; that, somehow, it must determine the compensation and the honor of labor. Hence, we hear on all sides a great deal about the introduction of Coolies, or Chinese, into the different slave States, as a substitute for the enslaved Africans. But what fits them for substitutes? Why, chiefly, their capacity to live on a pennyworth of rice per day; their willingness, perhaps, to work for sixpence from sun to sun. Put this and that together in the popular rationalities of this political economy, and they mean this; if ever free labor shall cultivate the cotton, rice, of corn-fields of the south, it shall be brought down as near to the lowest level of slavery as possible, in the matter of compensation. Is that all? No! it shall be brought down as near to the level of slavery in the quality of dignity as in that of compensation itself. Slavery is to measure and determine both. Slavery is to be the base line, on which the economist is to plan; one foot of his compass, and, with the other, step off a thin parallel, on which free men may work for sixpence a-day, and live on raw turnips or a handful of rice. We earnestly hope that the working men of every free country will awake to the importance of this subject; that they will see the bearing of slavery upon their own condition; then will they perceive the length and breadth of the meaning of Free Labor. Under this banner will they rally with sympathies and interests that beat and throb with all that is precious in their earthly hopes and well-being. - <xsl-text></xsl-text>Burritt's Bond of Brotherhood. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Provincial Freeman, reprinted from Burritt's Bond of Brotherhood Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3.10.1855 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 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 Labor.: Certificates Description An account of the resource A paragraph, from the "Fredericksburg Arena," which has been copied into a number of other papers, in speaking of the Philadelphia "Free Cotton Association," expresses some doubt as to "where," in our free country, cotton could be obtained untouched by the hands of slavery. For the satisfaction of those who may be apprehensive of deception, we subjoin the following copies of certificates, testifying to the purity of the material employed in the late manufactures of the society. That made use of previously, was received from the same source. Certificates. We do hereby certify, that the 30 bales of cotton, sent by us to Morris Longstreth, of Philadelphia, marked F, and numbered 1 to 30, is, exclusively, cotton raised by free white persons, or at least by free laborers, and that no cotton, raised by slaves, has been mixed therewith. NATHAN HUNT JR. for Hunt & Stockton. Third Mo. 23d, 1830 I do certify that the 30 bales of cotton, sent by Hunt & Stockton to Morris Longstreth, is according to the above certificate, exclusively the product of Free Labor; as I personally attended to the picking of it. NATHAN HUNT. 3rd Mo. 23d, 1830. It is also questioned whether the plan of proceeding, adopted by the Association, is of a nature to operate beneficially on the condition of the slaves. We should suppose no unprejudiced mind would hesitate for an instant to answer in the affirmative. We are convincd the system of Free Labor, as it is one of the most quiet, is also one of the most efficient, auxiliaries of Emancipation. And most thoroughly are we persuaded that to give freedom to the slaves would advantage their masters, in a degree inferior only to the benefit derived from the negroes themselves. The superiority of Free Labor does not rest upon unsupported theory--it has been tested by fair experiment, and found by far the most profitable. The society of which we speak, wishes not to injure the interests of any individual--nor can it interfere with the true interests of any one, to hold out inducments for them to return from a path of injustice to one of rectitude. It is but reasonable to suppose that the persons who are now slaves, would labor as cheerfully and industriously, when disencumbered, if not of the weight of actual fetters yet of the heavy sense of degradation and thrall, which presses upon their hearts and weighs down the energies of their nature with a dull lethargy. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Genius of Universal Emancipation 1:5, p. 73 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8.1830