12 10 250 https://productsoffreelabor.com/files/original/86156927ba5d2fda3647345a8004c751.jpg cb00f046622ac7770f24ba4398681a9c 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 Ice-Cream (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource FREE PRODUCE IC-CREAM, From the Country. THE Subscriber has commenced to supply the people of Philadelphia, <xsl-text></xsl-text>daily<xsl-text></xsl-text>, (4th & 7th days excepted,) with the abovenamed article. He may be found, at 1 o'clock, P. M. and onward, at stall No. 73, in the Market-house, opposite the “Farmers’ Inn,” Market street, between Sixth and Seventh. His ices may be relied on as made of pure cream from the springhouse, and the best of free sugar. His price is 50 cents per quart; and for smaller quantities in proportion. CHAS. S. SLEEPER. Ridley, Delaware co. June 1, 1843.—3t. 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 6.15.1843 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 Societies Description An account of the resource For the Liberator. <xsl-text></xsl-text>FREE PRODUCE SOCIETIES. I should have attempted, ere this, to answer the inquiries of S.T.U. had I not hoped that some one more competent would have undertaken it; but since none have appeared, limited as is my information on the subject, I will endeavor to impart the little knowledge I possess; and if it fail (as it certainly must) to satisfy his inquiring mind, it may be that we shall hear from him again on this important topic. He inquires: 'How many Free Produce Societies are there in the United States? How long since the first was formed? How large are they? On what principles are they established? Do they adopt the principle of total abstinence from the productions of slave labor, or only of procuring free articles when they can? If total abstinence is not the principle on which these societies are founded, how far is it adopted by the members as individuals? What objection would there be to giving up the use of articles obtained by slave labor? There are in Pennsylvania four societies for promoting the use of articles obtained by the labor of freemen. The first was organized in 1827, the second in 1828, the third and fourth in 1831. The recent establishment of the two last evinces the growing interest that it felt; and it is ardently to be desired that they may continue to multiply, until the total extinction of slavery shall preclude the necessity of their existence. The first Free Produce Society has about two hundred members; the second, near one hundred; the third, five hundred; and the fourth, about thirty-five. There being such a scarcity of articles manufactured from cotton, raised by freemen, and these only of a very coarse texture, (to say nothing of groceries) for so large a number to adopt, as a society, the 'principle of total abstinence,' would be to attempt an impossibility. This is a gloomy picture; yet it is nevertheless true, that with a population rising twelve millions, it would be impossible for eight hundred persons to abstain entirely from the use of articles obtained at the price of blood. It may be that there is a considerable quantity of free produce thrown into the market among slave produce; and as an inducement to those at the south, who do not keep slaves, to cultivate their land exclusively by the labor of freemen, and keep their produce separate from that which is polluted with the blood of our fellows, I would propose that the Free Produce Societies should offer a premium for such articles at present. Even the paper used in advocating the cause of the slaves, is obtained through the same impure channel as the garments on our forms and the food on our tables. I believe the members, generally, give a decided preference to, and frequently a premium for free produce. Many of them, also,—some who are not members,—abstain from the productions of slave labor, with the exception of paper and specie. I should not suppose that any one who admits that slavery is unjust, would have any 'objections to giving up the use of articles obtained by slave labor.' As far as I know, the only barrier to the general use of free articles is the difficulty of obtaining them; and it is earnestly desired that the day may not be distant, when it will be possible for all to free themselves from the imputation of the guilt of abetting men-stealers in their iniquitous trade; and the greater the difficulty, the more impressive are the calls upon us to double our diligence—to omit no effort in our power to make—to consider no sacrifice too great, until the barrier is entirely removed, until the sight of an article manufactured by slaves, shall elicit the exclamation of 'Whence is it? How came it here?' As free cotton is in great demand at this time, I would request 'S.T.U.' if he knows where any can be obtained, to inform us through the medium of the Liberator. V.W.X. PHILADELPHIA, 2d mo. 21st, 1832: Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource V.W.X. 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 3.10.1832 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 Societies (Article) Description An account of the resource Having given in our last, extracts from the proceedings of the Free Produce Societies, we feel induced to throw some thoguhts, which have suggested themselves, before our readers. Why do any say that abstinence from the products of slave-produce can effect nothing? Surely, they do not reflect; for in the first place, is it not something to the individual, to know that he has washed his hands of the guilt of oppression? That which is done intelligently and conscientiously, makes a better man; and as men become consistently better, their influence is extended--others observe the advantages they have from a rigid compliance with the requisitions of duty, and it is impossible but that they should desire those advantages for themselves--this desire very naturally will lead them, as it led those, to whose condition they aspire--for the peace here spoken of, is only to be had on the common terms--namely; to ascertain intrinsic right and conform to it. All truths are facts, or directly deduced from them. The sentiment just expressed, that the examples of the virtuous, though silent, and often unperceived, is nevertheless operative, is a well attested fact. To whose mind it was first suggested, that the consumer of the products of slave-labor was accessary to oppression, is not known; it is known, however, that but few years have elapsed since it claimed the attention of some isolated indivudals, who, however highly they ranked in other respects, had the lustre of their greatness obscured in the vision of their admirers, by this speck of innovation--this mist of enthusiastic, it may be, fanatic ccentricity. Now, hundreds bear the same testimony, and thousands have it under serious consideration. If, twenty years ago, the example of a conscientious man convinced his neighbor in a year--the two, each his man in the next, and so on, in a geometric series, whose annual ratio of progression is two, (and this it is believed existing associations will establish, up to this time) how long would it take to convince every one whose pecuniary interests are not opposed? Let it not be inferred that there is any implied indifference to other modes of arresting the enormous evil of slavery; the distinct object of this article is to defend abstinence in those who practice it, and to recommend the propriety of it to the consideration of others.--ib Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Liberator 1:36, p. 1 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 Societies. Description An account of the resource FREE PRODUCE SOCIETIES. Having given in our last, extracts from the proceedings of the Free Produce Societies, we feel induced to throw some thoughts, which have suggested themselves, before our readers. Why do any say that abstinence from the products of slave-labor can effect nothing? Surely, they do not reflect; for in the first place, is it not something to the individual, to know that he has washed his hands of the guilt of oppression? That which is done intelligently and conscientiously, makes a better man; and as men become consistently better, their influence is extended—others observe the advantages they have from a rigid compliance with the requisitions of duty, and it is impossible but that they should desire those advantages for themselves—this desire very naturally will lead them, as it led those, to whose condition they aspire—for the peace here spoken of, is only to be had on the common terms—namely; to ascertain <xsl-text></xsl-text>intrinsic right <xsl-text></xsl-text>and <xsl-text></xsl-text>conform <xsl-text></xsl-text>to it. All truths are facts, or directly deduced from them. The sentiment just expressed, that the example of the virtuous, though silent, and often unperceived, is nevertheless operative, is a well attested fact. To whose mind it was first suggested, that the consumer of the products of slave-labor was accessary to oppression, is not known; it is known, however, that but few years have elapsed since it claimed the attention of some isolated individuals, who, however highly they ranked in other respects, had the lustre of their greatness obscured in the vision of their admirers, by this speck of innovation—this mist of enthusiastic, it may be, fanatic eccentricity. Now, hundreds bear the same testimony, and thousands have it under serious consideration. If, twenty years ago, the example of a conscientious man convinced his neighbor in a year—the two, each his man in the next, and so on, in a geometric series, whose annual ratio of progression is two, (and this it is believed existing associations will establish, up to this time) how long would it take to convince every one whose pecuniary interests are not opposed? Let it not be inferred that there is any implied indifference to other modes of arresting the enormous evil of slavery; the distinct object of this article is to defend <xsl-text></xsl-text>abstinence <xsl-text></xsl-text>in those who practice it, and to <xsl-text></xsl-text>recommend <xsl-text></xsl-text>the propriety of it to the consideration of others.— <xsl-text></xsl-text>ib. 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 6.25.1831 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 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 Society Description An account of the resource Perhaps the most comprehensive mode that can be adopted to destroy the growth of slavery, is by rendering slave labor valueless. How is this practicable? By purchasing the products of free labor--and those only. No conscientious man can traffic with a thief, or buy stolen goods, even though he suffer pecuniary loss by a refusal: can he then participate in a double robbery--a robbery of freedom and of the fruits of other men's labors? Better to go half clad, than wear stolen garments; better to arrest every spindle in the country, than to have our manufactories supplied with the staples of tyranny; better to subsist upon the roots of the earth, gathered by our own hands, than to feast sumptuously every day, at the unwilling expense of others. The multiplication of Free Produce Societies, in different sections of the country, is highly desirable. We need the same spirit, on this subject, that is animating the bosoms of philanthropists in regard to the overthrow of intemperance. Let similar combinations follow, and the work of emancipation is done. A few fact, respecting the operations of the Free Produce Society of Pennsylvania, during the last few months, in connexion with the Ladies' Society, have been communicated to us, which warrant a belief in the speedy triumph of the project. Twenty-five hundred and fifteen lbs. of free Upland Cotton have been spun, and a portion of it manufactured into ginghams, checks, bed-tickings, stripes, knitting and sewing cotton, and cotton hose. About 800 lbs. of yarn remain to be yet appropriated, and with some of the goods above mentioned, are at the store of J. Mott, Philadelphia, unsold. The Society has been disappointed in obtaining a supply of shirtings and calicoes, in consequence of an error in spinning the above cotton. Information has been receivd from Washington, North Carolina, that many farmers in that section of country have commenced the cultivation of Mexican cotton, without the aid of slaves. They find it well adapted to the soil, yielding a greater quantity per acre, and being of a quality superior to all other kinds, in length and fineness of staple. Many stores continue to be maintained in Philadelphia, and elsewhere, at which most articles necessary to the comfort of life may be obtained; some at as cheap a rate as slave commodities, and others at but a trifling enhancement. A new source has been opened for the obtainment of RICE. Several farmers in North Carolina, who cultivate their lands without the intervention of slave labor, have spots of ground suitable for the growth of this grain, which they occasionally occupy for that purpose. Lacking a ready market for the sale of the produce, they have needed a stimulus to more energetic exertion. We rejoice to say, that measures have been adopted for purchasing a quantity of the rice thus raised, and it is hoped that the circumstance of a new market being opened, will prove greatly encouraging to those who, in the midst of a slave-holding population, are engaged to cultivate the soil by free labor only. In no manner, it is believed, can the cause of abolition be so effectually subserved, as by bringing free into open and vigorous competition with slave labor, ON THE SOIL OF SLAVERY ITSELF. The following communication to the Society, which we are permitted to publish, will be read with interest.--G. To the Committee of the Free Produce Society. GENTLEMEN,--Agreeably to your request, I herewith present you with a statement of the amount of our prchases of free sugar and molasses, during each quarter of the present year. At the same time that we have been desirous to promote the increase of the consumption of these goods, we have used our utmost endeavors to facilitate the means of procuring them, and have left no step untried, by which we thought it likely that information respecting them might be obtained. Since our last report, we have opened a correspondence with a merchant in Porto Rico, from whom we have since received twelve hogshead of sugar, of which we have satisfactory evidence from different individuals, that it was produced by free labor. The planter, who manufactures it, is a Creole or Spaniard, who will neither keep nor hire slaves--but derives his assistance from the natives of the island. He, at present, raises about one hundred hogsheads per annum. We have lately received from the same source, ten hogsheads of molasses, of an excellent quality, and have made arrangements to obtain a regular supply of the sugar-house molasses from the city of New York, whence we also receive the lump and loaf sugar, of a superior quality. You are well aware of the great difficulty under which we have been labouring to procure free rice, of good quality, having hitherto been entirely dependant upon the East Indies, from whence the supplies are uncertain, the quality very indifferent, and the price extravagantly high. It is with much pleasure I inform you, that we have made arrangements with a respectable citizen of North Carolina, to procure for us a regular supply of the article raised by free labor in that State. He informed us that several of the farmers of that place, who had spots of land suitable for the culture of the article, had employed them for that purpose--but the quantity each one brings into the market being necessarily small, is beneath the attention of merchants, and is purchased by the citizens for their own consumption, an or about the same prices as that produced by slave labor. We expect to obtain a supply of the article in about a month or six weeks, when we shall be on a par with the consumers of the slave rice, both in quality and price, viz: five cents per lb. We have for a considerable time past, had a regular supply of smoking and chewing tobacco, and of segars manufactured from Kentucky tobacco, which was accompanied with a certificate, testifying to its having been raised by free labor--also chocolate made of the St. Domingo cocoa, and all other articles that can be obtained. Although we have been endeavouring to obtain these goods on the most advantageous terms, so as to have the prices as near to those of the slave goods as possible, we have carefully avoided having any dependance upon sources in which we did not feel the most implicit confidence. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Genius of Universal Emancipation 4:8, p. 58 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10.30.1829 https://productsoffreelabor.com/files/original/5197c622c75229874aa9f35273df1b96.jpg 672af5ef87467373bbf7a33522f0bde8 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 Store (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource The Subscriber has made an arrangement with Joel Fisher for the purchase of his stock of Free Goods, with the occupation of the store now in his tenancy at the north west corner of Fifth and Cherry streets, to go into operation on the first of next month. He proposes to conduct the business through an agent, and expects to keep constantly for sale, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, as full an assortment of Free dry goods and groceries as practicable, increasing the present variety as new facilities are afforded. To enable him to place the goods at the lowest rates, it will be necessary for him to make his sales for cash,--persons giving him their orders are requested to bear this in view. To those who have heretofore patronized this establishment, to his friends, and to the friends generally of the Free Produce cause, he looks with great confidence for support in the responsible undertaking he is about to assume. Orders addressed to him at the above place, or at Box 777, Philadelphia Post Office, will have immediate attention, and goods will be delivered in any part of the city, or forwarded to the country, according to direction. GEORGE W. TAYLOR Philadelphia, 1st mo. 1st, 1847 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Non-Slaveholder 2:1, p. 24 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1.1.1847 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 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 STORES (Advertisement) Subject The topic of the resource List of free produce stores Description An account of the resource FREE PRODUCE STORES We refer to advertisements on page 8 of No. 1 -- merely giving, as far as they occur to our memory, a list of Free Produce Stores, at which Dry Good and Groceries, free from the stain of Slavery, may be obtained. We especially call attention to the Wholesale Establishment which heads the list, as our friend G. W. TAYLOR is prepared to supply orders (as per last month's advertisement) to all parts of the country. George W. Taylor, N.W. Cor. 5th and Cherry street, Philadelphia Ezra Town, 86 Pearl Street, N.Y. E Cattel, Mount Pleasant, Ohio. L. Coffin & Co., Cincinnati. Joel Parker, Newport, Indiana. Nathan Stanton, Newport, Indiana. Seth Henshaw, Greensboro', Indiana. C.M. & M.J. Scarlet, Penn's Grove, Chester Co. Ia. "The Voice of the Fugitives," announces, prospectively, a Free Labor Store in Detroit, Michigan. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Non-Slaveholder 1:2, p. 16 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2.2.1853 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 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 For the Liberator.<xsl-text></xsl-text> FREE PRODUCE. In the Liberator No. 15, in Aunt Margery's interesting conversation with the children, she observed that free sugar came from Java or Batavia—(sugar from the East Indies, I believe, is generally free)—but coffee raised on the island of Java, I learn, is generally cultivated by the Malay slaves— prisoners of war.—Those who feel scruples about using the products of slavery would be pleased to have the point settled. There is plenty of free coffee from Africa and St. Domingo for sale in New-England. S.B. 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 5.12.1832 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource S.B. 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 Products Description An account of the resource MR. EDITOR:—It is under a most solemn sense of duty and the love of God, that one, who has passed through great personal and family trials, for pleading the cause of the slave, and who may have still greater ones in store , now addresses you, earnestly desiring to strike one blow more, (may God make it effectual!) to subserve the all-important cause of crushed and bleeding humanity. For your serious and prayerful consideration, I shall make the following inquiries or suggestions. 1. If sugar, molasses, rice, cotton, and tobacco were produced by free or compensated labor alone in these United States, (or, if you choose, to estimate throughout the world,) what would be now, or have been, for the last 10, 20, or 50 years in these New-England States, the prices in market for these commodities? 2. As it has been, and is now, in point of fact, for a specified time, what is and has been the cost of the productions to New Englanders, on an average? 3. Will not the result show conclusively, how much, if any, we are actually in debt to the slave who have used these articles made cheaper by tears and blood, than they would otherwise have been? 4. If we have bought these articles, because we thought it more convenient than to obtain them by compensated labor, or to dispense with them entirely—however unintentional or unconscious of it, we may have been—are we not justly chargeable with the most direct and gross injustice to the slave, (in so far,)—and does it not become us most solemnly to confess, especially to God and the slaveholder, this our error and our sin, and henceforth to lay out or lay by, or let upon usury for the slave all the profits of slavery that we are conscious of now or hereafter possessing; praying the slaveholder to go and do likewise—not only rendering the slave himself, but his stolen goods, the property of his own acquiring. The foregoing was written some weeks since with the expectation of sending it then to the editor of the Liberator; but, since that time, I have read several accounts of attempts being made to establish a free labor system among the anti-slavery ranks from the National Anti-Slavery Standard. I am one of those who desire to purchase or use only the products of free labor, so far as I can know or obtain them hereafter; and, at the present, I am not quite sure that slave produce can be obtained at a less price than free labor produce, under the same or similar circumstances. Perhaps these items may be worth reviewing, though the reader may discover nothing new or striking to his own mind; and he is at liberty to use them as he sees fit. Yours for universal liberty, J.C.C. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource J.C.C. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Liberator 11:19, p. 2 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5.7.1841 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 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 Sugar Description An account of the resource Free Sugar.--It is expected that the Saluda, which has just sailed for Liberia, with emigrants and merchandise, will bring with her, on her return, some twenty or thirty hogsheads of sugar. We anticipate this cargo with the more pleasure, as it will afford the Abolitionists an opportunity of encouraging free, black labor. -African Repository. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Liberator, reprinted from African Repository Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9.13.1839