11 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 Labour Products (Article) Description An account of the resource FREE LABOUR PRODUCTS.--At the suggestion of our correspondent, D.I., we may state, that so far no difficulty, other than some extra labour, care and expense, has been encountered by the Free Produce Association of Friends of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, in procuring cotton, the product of free labour exclusively, in the newly settled districts, where the planter, though owning the land, has no capital to invest in slaves. The Association has rendered some assistance to such in furnishing gins to be paid for in cotton. Sugar and coffee are obtained from the British West Indies and from the Northern Republics of South America. It is hoped that increased facilities will ere long be added for obtaining those articles and some others from other places. Molasses can be had from the British West Indies, though not without an advance on the price over a similar article of slave produce. The supply of rice raised by free labour is quite limited, as to any channels yet opened for procuring it. Small quantities are raised by the poorer people in North Carolina. There are ample rice lands in South Eastern Virginia, we are informed by a Friend who recently visited those parts, from whence a full supply may be obtained for our Free Produce Store, should any free persons be found willing to cultivate it. Of this, however, we entertain some doubts, since corresponding with several Friends residing there. We may say, once for all, to all friends of the Free Produce cause, that they may rely on the goods of whatever kind kept at the Free Produce Store, N.W. corner of 5th and Cherry streets, in this city, as being uncontaminated with slave labour. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Non-Slaveholder 2:8, pp. 181 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8.1.1847 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 or Slave Labor Description An account of the resource In the first page of this paper, I have copied from a work, published a few years since, by Daniel Raymond, Esq. some remarks on the "Influence of Slavery upon National wealth." Something further, from the same source, will be given hereafter; and before the subject is dismissed, I shall endeavour to show the impropriety and inutility of employing slave labour, in any portion of our country, instead of that of free-men, as exemplified in numerous instances. It is true that I have but little respect for those who consciences are carried in their pockets; but it is necessary, at time, to pay some attention to them. PROGRESS OF VIRTUOUS PRINCIPLE. An esteemed correspondent writes as follows: the conduct of those, to whom he alludes, most truly "speak volumes." Let them persevere in this course, and we shall see whether it will not have a beneficial tendency. "Although many of our strick and steady Quakers say they own no slaves, and have little or nothing to do with the Manumission Societies but to wish them success; yet the words PORT AU PRINCE, &c. may be seen on their coffee sacks, and many are heard enquiring, at stores, if the sugar or coffee is from Hayti.--This speaks volumes. I wish success to a fashion and spirit of that kind--it will work miracles." While on this subject, it may be remarked that Jeremiah Thompson of New York, offers a permium on cotton raised in our southern country by free labor. Charles Collins, also, of New York, keeps an extensive Grocery Store, consisting wholly of articles which are produced by free labor. I am informed that report is industriously circulating, representing that this paper is mainly supported by the society of Friends--that it is under their direction, and that few others have taken any interest in the establishment. This is one of the miserable shifts which the advocates of slavery are under the necessity of resorting to, when they wish to exercise their vituperative talents, or issue their splenetic ffusions against the friends of emancipation. It is well known to many, that the paper is patronized by a considerable number of respectable citizens, of different religious denominations; and further, that no person whatever except the editor himself, has the least degree of interest in, or control over it. I shall notice this subject more fully in a future Number. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Genius of Universal Emancipation 1:4, p. 28 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9.17.1825 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 Description An account of the resource Blackley, near Philadelphia, 2d mo., 5th, 1850. RESPECTED FRIEND, WM. LLOYD GARRISON: Looking through some of my exchange papers today, I noticed an article in the Anti-Slavery Bugle, under the title 'Expurgation of Books.' The facts stated are not, of course, new to thee, but I enclose the slip containing them. Abolitionists are well acquainted with the distaste manifested by slaveholders towards any thing which conflicts with their sentiments and interests, and we are accustomed to condemn the dough-facism that mutilates books, poems, &c., to suit them. Pursuing my task, I took up the Liberator, and casting my eye over the report of the proceedings of the Syracuse Convention, copied from the Syracuse Journal, which I had previously seen, I was disappointed, astonished, pained, at finding an 'expurgation" of an incident--the introduction to the meeting of Henry B. Marshall, together with his remarks upon the duty of anti-slavery men to refuse the purchase of cotton, sugar, &c., from slaveholders. This man doubtless felt that for fourteen years he had been robbed of the products of his labor, and he was taught, by his unsophisticated sense of right, that the purchasers of those products are partakers in the wrong committed by the oppressor. I think great weight is to be attached to the feelings and testimony of such a man. I have known other cases of a similar character; Wm. W. Brown is one of them. The first time I saw him was at a large anti-slavery meeting in this State. I offered a resolution affirming the duty of abolitionists to refuse to purchase or use the fruits of the cruel system which they were seeking to overthrow. After two or three had spoken, Brown rose, and, as I was entirely ignorant of his sentiments on the subject, I felt some anxiety; but he soon relieved and delighted me, dclaring that while he was in the condition of a slave, and when he began to reflect upon the character and nature of slavery, one of the first impressions on his mind was the wrongfulness of purchasing and using the products of slave labor! Such, too, has been the conviction in the minds of thousands, during their early, fresh, pure anti-slavery life. Such was the early conviction of WM. LLOYD GARRISON! and the writer of this has long believed, that if this champion of freedom has continued, as he began, to earnestly and powerfully advocate the disuse of slave products, in connection with other anti-slavery duties, the downfall of slavery would at this moment be nearer than it is. O! that his eyes were opened to see, as they once saw, that slavery is not sustained merely by the political and ecclesiastical union of the North with the South, but that the commercial union, which at once gives and satisfies the motive for slaveholding, largely contributes to sustain the system, and should be dissolved by every one who would not strike hands with the oppressor. Is it not plain to him, that slavery in Cuba and Brazil is sustained mainly, if not exclusively, by a commercial union between those countries and others, including the United States? With sentiments of great respect, I am,  Very truly, thy friend, SAMUEL RHOADS P.S. If abolitionists would but go 'onward, hand to hand and heart to heart,' in realizing themselves, and pressing home upon the people in the free States, their INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY in sustaining slavery by purchasing and using its productions, it will not have to be said, after another twenty years' persevering effort, that 'there was not one single village in the country, however small its population, that was thoroughly imbued with the anti-slavery spirit; that there was not an anti-slavery pulpit or church that has a reputable character; and that the leaders in Church and State are still with the oppressor.'--See Proceedings of Mass. A.S. Society. For a brief rejoined to this complaining letter--this impeachment of our fairness and moral courage--see editorial department. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Samuel Rhoads Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Liberator 20:9, p. 36 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3.1.1850 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 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 Description An account of the resource Free Produce. P<sc>HILADELPHIA</sc>, 4th mo. 8, 1841. F<sc>RIEND</sc> R<sc>OGERS</sc>:—I had hoped that the anti-slavery papers would generally have complied with the request of our Free Produce Committee, to copy their “Address to Abolitionists,” without each being furnished with a special invitation; but it seems I was mistaken, for I am not avare of more than two or three having copied it. I will, therefore, issue a special invitation to the Standard, to conply with the request contained in the resolution of our commitee; and do hereby particularly invite all papers claining to be anti-slavery, to do likewise, unless they think the subject on which it treats is of too little importance to occupy the space of three columns in their papers. I know not why it is, that the subject of abstinence from slave labor produce receives so small a share of the attention of the anti-slavery press. The addresses, annual reports and resolutions of our associations rarely get beyond the columns of the Freeman. Take, for instance, the proceedings of our last annual meeting; ‘tis true, a few papers copied a portion of the report, and a few of the resolutions we adopted; but the extract from the report was that portion which referred to the exclusion of our delegates from the so-called-by-some World's Convention, and there. solutions were those condemnatory of the proceedings (in that particular instance) of that body, together with those approving of the formation of the British India Society.—But that part of the report in which we endeavored to show that duty required abolitionists to abstain from the use of slave labor productions, and the resolutions relating to our principles, have been passed by as of no moment. From the notice the anti-slavery press has generally taken of our last meeting, strangers to our object would not dream of our being a “Free Produce Association,” but would set us down as a “Society for condemning the exclusion of female delegates from the World's Convention, and for the approving of the British India Society,” or some similar association. B. S. J. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource B.S.J. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National Anti-Slavery Standard Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 4.22.1841 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 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 Produce (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource FREE PRODUCE JOSEPH H. BEAL has removed his store from 41 Fulton street, where he formerly kept, to 376 Pearl street, New York, where he intends to keep a general assortment of goods, the product of free labor; including Groceries, Dry Goods, Cotton Cloths, Shirting, and Paper made of linen rags, which he will sell, wholesale and retail, upon the best terms he can afford. The establishment will probably be the most extensive of any of the kind in the United States; and the diligence, punctuality, and industry of the proprietor, who has engaged in the business from principle, will give satisfaction to all who have dealings with him. We hope this store will be extensively patronized. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Genius of Universal Emancipation III and XII: 11, p. 176 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9.1.1833 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 Produce (Article) Description An account of the resource It is evidently wrong to pay the slaveholder for his plunder, either personally or through a series of agents, except where it is expedient, to avoid considerable loss or injury, while yet abstinents are so few as not to affect the market, for in dealing with so extreme an evil as Slavery, the expediency principle is not to be wholly rejected. But his does not apply where several can join in sending to a Free Produce depot. Our moral power depends upon our consistency. Extensive abstinence from slave-sugar inaugurated that phase of Anti-Slavery in England which proved successful. The willing consumers of Slave Produce are responsible for Slavery, and such are all who would refuse to sign the following Pledge: We pledge ourselves to promote the Free Produce Movement by all reasonable means, especially by contributions in the way of premiums, &c.; to stimulate the supply of free cotton and substitutes; and we pledge ourselves that when a number of families, suppose two millions, at home and abroad, sufficient to materially affect the slaveholders and their patrons, the manufacturers and merchants, shall have signed this pledge, we will league together in first appealing to those classes to move at once for Abolition or lose our custom; then if unheeded, in at least making an earnest trial to abstain totally and inflexibility from the staple products of Slavery. How much more noble this than to propose a "compensation" (horrid misnomer) to the slaveholder for emancipation! This, I think, would be more effectual than all other peaceable measures, though I am for carrying onward all together. L. CLOUGH. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource L. Clough 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 7.20.1855 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 Produce (Article) Description An account of the resource FREE PRODUCE.--The editor of the Standard thinks he could discern "a marked change" in the opinions of the Pennsylvania Abolitionists, on the subject of Free Produce, as manifested at our annual meeting. It seemed to him that their faith was not so strong as formerly, and that their conviction of the duty of abstinence from slave-grown products, had dwindled into a mere preference for the product of free labor where it could b conveniently obtained. We think that he has underrated the faith and the zeal of the Pennsylvania Abolitionists, in this matter, and are half inclined to suspect that his "wish was father to his thought." We readily, though sorrowfully, acknowledge that the principle in question is not so generally received and so faithfully applied, as its importance demands, but in justice to a large body of Pennsylvania Abolitionists, we must say that a strong testimony has, in this respect, been borne by them, against American Slavery, and that they are actively exerting themselves to enlist the consciences and hearts of the friends of the slave generally, in this department of our w[?]k. We trust that they will be increasingly diligent and hopeful. We are sure that such zeal and earnestness and theirs will never be satisfied with "a growing conviction that" it is "very well to avoid the produce" of the slave's extorted and unrequited toil, "when it can be done conveniently;" when, without much trouble, one can feed himself with sugar, and clothe himself with cotton, which is not moistened with the tears and stained with the blood of the slave. As to the discussion of this subject at the recent meeting, different opinions were of course entertained by the numerous auditors. We believe that the friends of Free Produce generally felt that the cause had not suffered loss by it, and that the attempt to maintain the rightfulness of such a support of Slavery as is afforded by the purchase of its fruits, proved unsuceessful. We hope that they will show the strength and vigor of their [?] by their works.  We copy the above from the Pennsylvania Freeman, cheerfully submitting to be corrected if we are in the wrong. The impression we received, however, came from the expressed doubts of, at least, two somewhat prominent individuals who had hitherto been advocates of the Free Produce doctrine, but who are now questioning whether that doctrine could be insisted on as a principle. We thought we saw and felt that there was more doubt in the assembly than we had ever before remarked a similar meetings in Pennsylvania, as to the correctness of the position of our free-produce friends. It seemed to us that many seemed to feel the weight of the objection--that that which it was acknowledged could not be carried out, could not be insisted on as a principle; and that the objction was not answered by the reply, that if carried out we must cease to exist. For if a principle, and therefore a duty, we should act in obedience to it though at the expense of life. "It is necessary to live," said a suitor for royal bounty to Cardinal Richilieu. "I do not see the necessity," replied the Cardinal. It is not necessary to live, but it is necessary to do right. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National Anti-Slavery Standard 10:25, p. 98 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11.15.1849 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 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 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 SUGGESTED (Article) Subject The topic of the resource Responce to Henry Miles Description An account of the resource --We see in F. Douglass' paper a letter to Gerrit Smith from our valued friend and contributor H. Miles of Monkton, Vermont, suggesting "the propriety of organizing an American Free Produce Association:--of holding a convention during the fall or winter,"--"Let us," says H.M. "have a demonstration that there is some 'resolution in our resolves' to have no union with slaveholders, politically ecclesiastically or commercially." G. Smith in an unpublished reply says, "I and my family have refrained for 20 years from Slave produce. IT IS ONE OF THE WAYS BY WHICH UNDER GOD, I AM ABLE TO MAINTAIN MY ANTI-SLAVERY PRINCIPLES. I should be much pleased to see such an Association as you speak of." A kindred project has been entertained by some friends in this vicinity. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Non-Slaveholder 1:11, p. 95 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11.02.1853 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 Free Produce Convention, 11.15.1839 and 11.16.1839 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource BOSTON. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1839. FREE PRODUCE CONVENTION. The first annual meeting of the American Free Produce Association was held in Philadelphia on the 15th and 16th of October. More than 100 delegates and friends were in attendance. Three were present, we perceive, from Massachusetts, among whom was our much esteemed friend WM. BASSETT, who presided over the deliberations of the Convention. Letters were read from GERRIT SMITH, ALVAN STEWART, D.L. CHILD and others. The Executive Committee, in their annual report, while they lament that so little has been accomplished, express their belief 'that the cause of abstinence has taken a deeper and deeper hold on the public mind, and that the action of the friends of the cause throughout the country manifests a greatly increased interest.' Emancipation in the West Indies, and the efforts of the friends of humanity in Great Britain to enable the produce of the labor of freemen to come into competition with slave produce, are adverted to as events calculated to inspire the friends of the enterprise with hope and confidence in its success. The efforts of the committee to establish stores for the exclusive sale of free goods have not as yet met with success. They express the belief, that beneficial results would flow from the creation of a fund for the encouragement of the production of cotton by free labor, and that by the judicious application of such a fund, the quantity so raised might not only be greatly increased, but that at present produced be more effectually secured for the benefit of the conscientious consumer or manufacturer. Such a fund, they think, might be well employed in purchasing free cotton, which sometimes comes into market in larger quantities than individuals are able to purchase— in sending well qualified agents to the South to collect free cotton, which the committee know to be raised by persons, some of whose names are in their possession— and in the payment of a premium for  free labor cotton. say from five to ten per cent. where the market price of that grown by slaves. If a supply of the raw material could be obtained, there are abundant facilities for manufacturing at hand. Several proprietors of extensive cotton factories have expressed a desire to exclude slave-grown cotton from their works; preferring, at a sacrifice, to encourage the honest labor of paid freemen. A resolution, instructing the committee to raise such a fund, was adopted by the association. Among the resolutions adopted were the following: Resolved, That the exaction of labor without wages is a violation of the right of compensation, guaranteed by the Creator when he pronounced the sentence, 'in the sweat of thy face shalt thou ear bread,' and that no power inferior to that which conferred can revoke the grant. Resolved, That in the language of John C. Calhoun, 'he who earns the money, who digs it out of the earth with the sweat of his brow, has a just title to it against the universe;' that 'no one has a right to touch it with at his consent, except his government, and that only to the extent of its legitimate wants, and to take more is robbery;' that, therefore, he who deprives the slave of the fruits of his toil is a robber, and he who partakes of his plunder shares his guilt. Resolved, That we call earnestly upon those abolitionists who do not abstain from the products of slave-labor, to reflect on the glaring inconsistency of protesting against slavery as an immorality, and yet paying for its support, and that we press upon their consciences the inquiry whether thousands of slaves are not kept in bondage by <xsl-text></xsl-text>their <xsl-text></xsl-text>participation in the fruits of robbery. And, whereas a lamentable apathy on this subject extensively exists among abolitionists, therefore Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to correspond with Anti-Slavery Societies, for the purpose of inviting free discussion in respect to the duty of abolitionists in relation thereto. Henry Grew, C.C. Burleigh, and Wm. Bassett were appointed the committee. Resolved, That we hall with joy the complete emancipation of the slaves in the British West Indies, and the formation of the British India Society, as events calculated to have an important bearing on the cause of freedom generally, and on our enterprise in particular, for the prosecution of which, it will greatly increase the facilities, by bringing the productions of free labor in both Eastern and Western India into competition with those of slave labor, and thus multiplying the sources of supply of free goods. Resolved, That a delegation be appointed from this Society, to the Anti-Slavery Convention for the World, which is to be holden in London, that Summer. In accordance with the last resolution, Daniel Neal, Charles Marriot, Abraham L. Pennock, Lucretia Mott, William Basset, James Mott, Charles C. Burleigh, John G. Whittier and Sarah Pugh, were appointed to represent this Association in that Convention. The Executive Committee was authorized to fill any vacancies that may occur, and add to the delegation. Resolved, That the Corresponding Secretary be instructed to open a correspondence with the British India Society, with reference to the objects of our Association, and to assure that body of the sincere gratification with which we have heard of its formation, as well as the important assistance to our cause which we anticipate from its labors. Resolved, That for the purpose of affording information to persons desirous of avoiding slave-grown productions, the Executive Committee be directed to prepare and publish a list of the places or countries where articles, the result of remunerated labor, are raised, or whence they can be obtained, together with a list of Stores in the United States, at which free goods can be purchased. The following are the officers of the association for the ensuing year. <xsl-text></xsl-text>President. <xsl-text></xsl-text>William Bassett, of Lynn, Massachusetts. <xsl-text></xsl-text>Vice Presidents. <xsl-text></xsl-text>Thomas Hambleton, of Chester Co., Pa. Charles Marriot, of Hudson, N.Y. Lucretia Mott, of Philadelphia, William H Johnson, of Bucks Co., Pa. <xsl-text></xsl-text>Recording Secretary. <xsl-text></xsl-text>William C. Betts, of Philadelphia. <xsl-text></xsl-text>Corresponding Secretary. <xsl-text></xsl-text>Daniel L. Miller, Jr. of Philadelphia. <xsl-text></xsl-text>Treasurer. <xsl-text></xsl-text>Elizabeth T. Bunting, of Philadelphia. <xsl-text></xsl-text>Executive Committee. <xsl-text></xsl-text>Charles C. Burleigh, Caleb Clothier, Alice Eliza Hambleton, Sidney Ann Lewis, Henry Grew,Mary C. Pennock, Lydia White, Lewis C. Gunn, Samuel J. Levick, Eli Hambleton, Benjamin S. Jones,Edward M. Davis. 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 11.15.1839