13 10 250 https://productsoffreelabor.com/files/original/d2fe6a307397a474085c888e33511c49.jpg 66792e6ae266f78f98d3185e6d46ad47 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 Levi Coffin (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource LEVI COFFIN. COMMISSION MERCHANT, and Dealer in Free Labor Dry Goods and Groceries , northwest corner of Ninth and Walnut streets, Cincinnati, Ohio. 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 8.24.1848 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.H. Nelson (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource L.H. NELSON, Grocer and Tea Dealer, No. 53 Anthony Street, N. York. GOODS free from slave labour. Keeps constantly on hand a general assortment of good groceries , which he offers to his friends and the public on accommodating terms. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <em>Weekly Advocate</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1.14.1837 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 Cincinnati A.S. Bazaar (Event) Subject The topic of the resource Advertisement for Bazaar hosted by Anti-Slavery Sewing Circle of Cincinnati Description An account of the resource The Anti-Slavery Sewing Circle of Cincinnati, having been successful beyond their most sanguine expectations in their efforts last fall, have resolved to hold another Bazaar the first week in October next, to be conducted upon the same principles of excluding raffling, unjust charges upon goods, and all objectionable features to Fairs, as usually held. The Society desires, most earnestly, to make this a means of great usefulness to the cause of the oppressed, and call upon all friends to aid them according to their several abilities. We beg those who last year sent us shoes, brushes of all kinds, china, tins, cabinet ware, such as small chains, towel-horses, &c, &c., combs, caps, books, hosiery, groceries , produce of all sorts, to remember that all found a ready sale and helped to give variety and solidity to the Bazaar. We wish emphatically to have it a useful one to all concerned, and anything which helps to make up the usual routine of household comfort, will be especially acceptable, as well as the most tasteful and ornamental. We all spend money somewhere. Let Abolitionists make it a principle with themselves to save and spend it here. Thus shall we operate unitedly with those who feel called more immediately to labor and sacrifice in this way. We hope our friends will bear this in mind and make their arrangements to be with us or send in their contributions. Anything left at Levi Coffin's Free Labor Produce Store, Court Street, between Main and Walnut, directed to Mrs. Andrew H. Eranst, will be gratefully acknowledged. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <em>Frederick Douglass' Paper&nbsp;</em>(also printed in <em>The National Era</em>) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6.26.1851; 7.24.1851; 7.31.1851; 8.21.1851; 9.4.1851; 9.25.1851; 10.2.1851 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 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 Extracts From the Letters of the Agent of the Philadelphia Free Produce Association Description An account of the resource Selections. From the Non-Slaveholder. EXTRACTS. From the Letters of the Agent of the Philadelphia Free Produce Association. Having been called upon from various quarters by our friends, for some account of the visit to the South, last winter, of the "Philadelphia Free Produce Association of Friends," for the purpose of collecting information of the production of cotton, sugar and rice labor, we are now enabled to lay before our readers sundry extracts from his letters, written while travelling through parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas. LETTER NO. I. Lafayette Co., Miss., 1st Mo. 11th, 1848. "A.H. and I.T., owners of a gin furnished by the Philadelphia Free Produce Association of Friends, think there will be no difficulty in procuring two hundred bales of free grown cotton in the vicinity of their gin." Near the close of this letter the writer says: "There might be thousands of bales of free cotton collected through this country, but for the ginning and packing, or baling." NO. II. Yalabusha Co., Miss., 12th mo. 20, 1847. "I am now at my very kind and hospitable friend _______, near Coffeeville, eighty-five miles form Memphis. I must take occasion to say, that during much of the time I have been in this State, there has been a gloom over my mind - my eyes pained with seeing, and my ears with hearing; but since I arrived here the cloud has considerably disappeared. My friend, though a Louisianian and a slaveholder, is one of the finest men I have met with. His whole soul appears to be in the great case. He has been proving his faith by his works in liberating a part of his slaves, and intends doing likewise with those he has on hand when he can get those who are connected in marriage with then, but do not belong to him. I wish I had space to give a history of his trials and difficulties. His enemies have arraigned him before the Grand Jury, but failing there, they resorted to an organized mob, firmly bound by a written article, but in this too they failed in executing their fiendish design. He has a considerable and increasing number of friends, and the excitement has died away in some degree." NO. III. Lafayette Co., Miss., 1st mo. 6th, 1847, The writer has been in Chickasaw County, and found a considerable number of free laborers, but no gin worked by free labor. He had some encouragement that one would be procured by a father ant three sons. "The father appears to be a pious man, refuses to hold slaves, though fully able to own them, nor will he hire one." About 60 bales of cotton might be collected there. " ______ _______, of Yalabusha Co., a very intelligent man, says he will engage to furnish 1500 or 2000 bales of free cotton - purchase at the market price at various shipping points, pay storage, attend to shipping and insuring, devote his whole time to the business, and have the cotton ginned by free labor - giving security for the right performance of the whole." NO. IV. Marshall Co., Miss., 1st mo. 14th, 1848. "Since my last, I have directed my course this way, and, after some serious difficulties with high water, arrived at my friend ______ ________. He has done us efficient aid, by preparing the minds of the people in this neighborhood for our operations. This is the man we talked of sending a gin to when we sent one to _____. Since that time a gin has been erected in this settlement, managed entirely by free labor, by two brothers named _____, which performs well, and this neighborhood affords one of the best opportunities for procuring free cotton that I have heard of. Only three or four families hold slaves in the whole settlement - all appear content without them. * * Several with whom I have conversed think the cultivation of this kind of cotton will increase rapidly, if our arrangement is gone into, so that they can have a market that will justify them in handling their cotton nice and clean, which they all prefer. But the large planter, by having a large lot of cotton, and purchasing a great quantity of groceries , gets very nearly as much as the small clean lots bring, which discourages the small growers from taking as much pains as they otherwise would. - Some of these, not being keen traders, are swindled out of at least part of the price; so that a system of fair dealing would, I have no doubt, soon gain the confidence of this class of the community." After giving the names of the cultivators of 249 bales of the free grown and free gained cotton, the letter concluded thus: I shall, Providence permitting, still continue my labors unabated in the most favorable regions of country. This business is, as I knew before I came this time, trying to the natural man - often meeting the frowns and the scoffs of the aristocratic part of the community: yet all here readily agree that we cannot be consistent without adopting our course. There is no difficulty in the people here seeing this, and strange it is to me that there should anywhere, but especially among a people professing what we do." NO. V. Tennessee, 1st mo. 25th, 1848. "I am happy to state that we found the opportunity of getting free cotton far better in this county (MacNairy) than we anticipated, or expected to find anywhere. A large portion of the citizens came from Friends' settlements in North Carolina, and can readily understand our operations, many entertaining similar feelings. The land being broken, there is no chance for large farmers to work their slaves. Among these small but contented farmers, there is a considerable number of gins managed entirely by free labor." The writer then gives the names of the cultivators of 771 bales of free grown and free ginned cotton, and adds: "I am every day more and more confirmed in the rectitude of our course. Five minutes is time enough to convince any one of the consistency of it. I sometimes fear that the light we have at the North will arise and condemn many. Be encouraged and persevere, is my desire, let if fare with us as it may." * * * While last at Memphis, I was introduced by one of my friends to a merchant of New Orleans, who told me that there was living with him a sugar planter who was now trying the experiment of paid labor. He had hired thirty Germans, and was going to plant one hundred acres in cane." * * * "It is the opinion of all here that free labor will increase in this part of the country. We are now at the house of _____ _______, who tells me there are but two slaves in his neighborhood." * * * "I hear of a number of other gins in this and the adjoining county, owned and managed entirely by free laborers, which we intend visiting." NO. VI. Jasinto, Miss., 2d mo. 2d, 1848. "My last was mailed at Adamville, containing an account of 771 bales of cotton that could be had in that section. Since that date, we have made several other arrangements, which will accompany this. Thus far we have succeeded far better than our most sanguine anticipations could have imagined." The writer gives the names of the cultivators of 311 bales of cotton, and says: "I cannot close without expressing something of my feelings when in MacNairy and Hardin counties, Tenn. A large portion of the citizens there came from Guilford county, South Carolina. I think I never saw so clearly the necessity of Friends being consistent and faithful, as when among those kind people. When taking my hand, they would recur back to early times, to impressions made at an early day by the consistent, orderly walking of the Friends. It is sweetly recollected by them now in their hoary locks. I am satisfied that if Friends had stood their ground in the South, things here would be in a better condition. But instead of hearing a firm and faithful testimony, they have congregated in the northwest, become honorable and opulent, too much forgetting the poor slave, and we have only to open our eyes to see the consequences. I think I said in my last, that five minutes was time enough to satisfy any person in this country that we had met with of the consistency of our course, and it will not be too much to say it again. Oh, what an influence it would have if all were willing to come up square to the mark! I thought I had a specimen of this while at ____ ________'s gin. While I was taking the names of his customers, eight or nine men standing by, and the principal slaveholder in the neighborhood among them, I was introduced by the gin-holder - a rough-spoken old man - as a gentleman buying cotton for an Abolition Company to manufacture. This drew forth some remarks, and I proceeded to take the names of the neighbors - of course omitting this slaveholder. He being a little to one side, observed to the gin owner, that it was hard, after he had worked and got a few niggers, he must be kicked out of society. I was delighted to hear _____ ________, give the character of one of his customers - a cultivator of cotton, and a free man of color - as one of the most upright and pious Christians in that country." NO. VII. Hollysprings, Miss., 2d mo. 7th, 1848. "In my last I mentioned some free labor gins that we expected to visit; we accordingly did so, and herewith send an account of 383 bales." "We were advised to call on ____ ______, a Baptist minister. He has a gin and two slaves, but was bold to denounce the system before we told our business, and says he intends to liberate them as soon as he can make arrangements to do so. He had brought them from a cruel master, and thought in so doing he would be justified; but he does not feel so. When we told what arrangements we wanted to make to procure free cotton, he understood it immediately, and is anxious to enter into it with us. His neighborhood is a good one to operate in, having but few slaves in it. He says many of his neighbors are of the same sentiment with himself, and he thinks the cultivation of free cotton will increase there. If you engage with him, he will not allow his slaves - one of whom is a house-woman, wife of the other - to touch the cotton while it is ginning and preparing, until he secures their emancipation. He thinks he can get several hundred bales in Tishamingo and Tippah counties, (Miss.,) if you should think proper to employ him to collect. I inquired into his character, and the people of Ripley told me he could get the best security to any amount for the correct performance of anything he promised to do. I hope you will attend to him; he needs kind and brotherly treatment, and I trust he will be useful to the cause. His gin is now worked entirely by white laborers." "We have made an arrangement with _____ ________, a Methodist minister, and owner of a gin worked by free labor. He at first laughed at the idea of a people refusing to use the productions of slave labor, but on hearing it explained, he readily saw the consistency of such a course, and willingly consented to enter into an arrangement to sell us his cotton." NO. VII. On board Steamboat Saladin, from Memphis to New Orleans, 2d mo. 20, 1848. "I am pursuing my journey alone, having left my wife at Memphis; and expect, Providence permitting, to go by water to Galveston, Texas, then travel through that country and Arkansas." * * * "In a previous letter I mentioned ____ ______, of New Orleans, who gave encouragement about sugar. Since that time I have had an opportunity of inquiring into his character. I learn that he is a Christian professor, and stands rather remarkably fair as a merchant of uprightness and honesty. I chanced to meet with him the other day at Memphis; he took my arm, and said he was happy to meet me, for he was of the same opinion with me in this matter, and would gladly give assistance in our undertaking. He said he had been proving his faith by his works, in emancipating several slaves, who are now in New York. He gave me the name of the sugar planter alluded to, and says he will not own a slave: he keeps everything nice upon his farm, and all dine at one table with much order and decorum. ____ _______ speaks highly of the intelligence and piety of many of the people of color in New Orleans; and says: 'Give them a fair chance, and MIND WILL UP.' "I was introduced to a cotton merchant in Memphis by the name of ____ ______, formerly of Virginia. He was acquainted with Friends in Virginia - much admired them, and expressed an entire willingness to aid us any way he can. Although he is a slaveholder, he sees the consistency of our testimony. " ____ ______, a slaveholder, has rendered me efficient aid in prosecuting my business. He has an extensive acquaintance in the South, and gave me names and introduced me to persons of congenial feeling. He has emancipated some of his slaves, and intends to clear himself this season of the system." ____ ______, a slaveholder, who lives near ____ ____, Mississippi, was raised among Friends in Wayne county, N. Carolina, is now a high professing Methodist. He esteems Friends and their testimonies very highly, and is not satisfied in holding slaves, but intends to come out of it. He sees the consistency of our testimony, and, having a water cotton gin, says if we will trust to him, he will gin all the free cotton in his neighborhood himself, hire white men to bale it, and give what encouragement he can to our cause. " ____ ______, a slaveholder, of same post office, but in another settlement, formerly a merchant in N. Alabama, has traded to Philadelphia. He became acquainted with Friends there, and attended their meeting. He fully understands our course, and its consistency, and says that no southern gentleman of good understanding will object to our undertaking. His objection to the Northern people, is their inconsistent, hypocritical pretensions to liberty, while the free colored man if fettered there. Oh, what a work is before us, if we are but faithful! "I might instance many similar cases, but time and space forbid it. I give these to encourage you to persevere in this work of mercy, justice and love. I have my times of trial and discouragement, but am compelled in the midst to exclaim, The work is on the wheel! There were some signs of excitement when I first got to Mississippi, but I visited all those places, and some of them more than once; and I am happy to say, I believe it had mostly subsided when I left. You will observe, in corresponding with those whom I have recommended, not many noble are called,' but thousands of the poorer order here have the good seed springing up ready to bloom, and even bear fruit, to the honor of the Great Husbandman." This letter gives an account of about 120 bales of free cotton. (TO BE CONTINUED.) 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 10.6.1848 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 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 Constitution of the Free Produce Association of Western Vermont Description An account of the resource Believing that slaveholding is opposed to the sprit and tenor of the Christian religion, and mainly supported by the purchase of the productions of slave labor, were regard it our duty to abstain, as far as practicable, from the sue of such productions. With these views, and to increase the facilities in procuring goods produced by free labor, we unite in an Association under the title of the Free Produce Association of Western Vermont, and adopt for its Government with the following rules: ARTICLE 1. This Association shall consist of such persons as concur in the above sentiments, and sign the Constitution. ARTICLE 2. The objects of this Association shall be not to substitute this for other modes of Anti-Slavery actions, but to take up the Anti-Slavery enterprise where the church and ballot box heave it - to carry frequent Anti-Slavery action into the family circle of each of its members, to the counter of the store-keeper, to the factory of the exchange, as unreservedly as we would make it an affair of the church, or the business or legislative bodies - to stimulate ourselves in such practical Anti-Slavery efforts as a constant recurrence ft our leading principles would induce - to adopt means for obtaining a supply of articles the production of free labor, that cannot be other wise and impolicy of slave labor, the demolition of domestic comfort, of social and religious privileges, and the destruction of human life which it occasions, and the duty of withstanding from it our support. ARTICLE 3. The Association shall meet annually, and at such other times as the Board of Managers shall direct. ARTICLE 4. The officers of the Association shall be a President, two Vice Presidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and a Board of Managers, to be appointed at the Annual Meeting, and continue in office till others are appointed. ARTICLE 5. The duties of the officers of the Association shall be similar to those in other associations , (defined in the by-laws) and they shall submit a report of their proceedings forth past year at the Annual Meeting. ARTICLE 6. the Association shall correspond, as occasion may require, with such similar associations as may be established in promoting its objects. ARTICLE 7. This Constitution may be altered or amended at any Annual Meeting of the Association , by a vote of two-thirds of the members present. S. HUMPHREY, President, pro-term . HENRY MILES, Corresponding Secretary. 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 6.9.1854 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meetings and Events Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Philadelphia; 10.15.1839 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource American Free Produce Association The first annual meeting of the American Free Produce Association will be held in Philadelphia on the 15th of October. Societies auxiliary to this are requested to send large delegates and the friends of the cause generally are invited to attend. On behalf of the Executive Committee. ABM. L. PENNOCK, Chairman, DANL. L. MILLER, Secretary. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <em>The Colored American</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10.5.1839 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meetings and Events Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Boston Bazaar (Event) Subject The topic of the resource Mention of Free Produce Associations in event description Description An account of the resource Nearly eight columns of the Liberator of last week are occupied with an account of this Bazaar. By this official report, we learn that the receipts (we suppose the gross receipts, for nothing is said of expenses) amount to three thousand dollars - a sum less than that received from the Bazaar last year - a circumstance elaborately accounted for in the report. The conservatism of Boston is dwelt upon in quite a philosophical strain, in which the case of poor Sims (the fugitive slave) is woven with much skill and effect. The exclusion of the Bazaar from old Faneuil Hall is, very properly, made the subject of extended remark. The glaring pro-slavery spirit and partiality of the city authorities are fearlessly set forth, and must cover them with shame and reproach. It seems that those worthies could grant the use of Faneuil Hall, on half toll, to the Catholic Fair, and refuse it to abolitionists even when offered the whole price which they had fixed as the rent rate. The Bazaar, from the report, does not seem to have lacked British contributions. "Our friends in Great Britain had, with one or two exceptions, exceeded the generosity of previous years. Wherever a deficiency had occurred, it has been supplied with fresh and unlooked-for laborers. Boxes of great variety and value were received from the following places in Great Britain: London, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, New-castle-upon-Tyne, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, Dublin, and Cork. These included donations from Bath, Frenchay, Chatham, Bolton, and other towns in England, and from Dundee, Sterling, Crieff, Comrie, Milnathrob and Kinross in Scotland." In speaking of the catholicity and breadth of the American A.S. Society, the report says: "As we have said elsewhere, a recognition of the sinfulness of slavery, and the duty of its immediate abolition, is the basis on which its operations rest, the tie which unites in harmonious fellowship a great multitude of men and women, differing, perhaps, in various degrees, on every other subject. No religious or political test is allowed. On its platform, men and women, blacks and whites, natives and foreigners, Christians and infidels, have the same rights, and are by their presence committed to nothing but a warfare on slavery." Theoretically, this is true; PRACTICALLY it is far from the truth. The time was, we know, when " harmonious fellowship" with the American Anti-Slavery Society was the " recognition of the sinfulness of slavery, and the duty of its immediate abolition," but this time has passed. No such qualifications as these, can secure such " harmonious fellowship;" and this, we believe, the writer of the above well knows. - The " recognition " of the pro-slavery character of the U.S. Constitution, and a bitter hatred of "the Liberty Party," are far safer passports to " harmonious fellowship" with that Society, than is the " recognition of the sinfulness of slavery, and the duty of its immediate abolition." As an evidence of the exceeding coolness of this writer, take the following: In closing this paper, necessarily brief and inadequate, we feel that our whole duty were not discharged, did we not renewedly commend the American A.S. Society to the donations and sympathies of all who are seeking to find the only real and efficient anti-slavery instrumentality that the country affords. Free Soil parties, Vigilance Committees, Associations for the Improvement of the Colored Race, Free Produce Associations , Schools for Colored Children, - all and each of these do a partial, and some of them a praiseworthy work, in aid of the anti-slavery enterprise. But they are only collateral, and dependent for their vital breath on the life created by this organization. " The only real and efficient anti-slavery instrumentality that the country affords!" Sister, here we think you are mistaken. In this Protestant country, it will not do to deal in " onlys." There are so many " efficient anti-slavery instrumentalities, it scarcely looks modest for any one among them, to arrogate to itself the Romish appellation of " only." We believe that the American A.S. Society is doing a great and good work; and, as far as its members will allow us, we are disposed to co-operate with it; still, we think that our anti-slavery "vitality" is not imparted to us by that organization. There is a Power that supplies that "vitality,' independent of all human organization; and that Society might fall to pieces tomorrow, and strange as it may seem, the anti-slavery cause would survive it. Oh! when will men and women cease to worship the Form, instead of the Power - look, with becoming humility upon the works of their own hands? 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 2.5.1852 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 Sunderland, UK; 10.4.1850 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource Anti-Slavery Demonstration<br /><br />A public anti-slavery meeting was held in Smyrna Chapel, on Monday evening last. The Rev. John Parker presided. Long before the time appointed for the services of the evening, the chapel was crowded to excess; and as it was thought desirable that none who had come interested in the prosperity of the movement should be disappointed, it was resolved to open Union Chapel for those who could not gain admittance into Smyrna. In a few minutes that chapel was also crowded. When the Rev. Dr. Pennington and the Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, gentlemen of color, and once slaves, but now ministers of the gospel, the former in the city of New York, and the latter at Geneva, State of New York, entered the chapel, the immense assembly rose and in the most welcome and enthusiastic manner greeted them as brethren. It was then agreed that they should each address both meetings. The Rev. James Muir presided over the meeting in Union Chapel. The addresses of the gentlemen were eloquent, persuasive and thrilling, and were received with expressions of the highest approbation. Many of their statements filled the audience with horror, and drew from them the deepest sympathy. - They showed that the history of slavery on the cotton fields of America, is the very epitome of human misery. The slaves are treated like beasts of burden - their family ties are disregarded - they are constantly worked under the whip - even the women being flogged unmercifully when they fail in accomplishing their appointed task. Should they attempt to escape, they are hunted with bloodhounds, and not unfrequently shot down like wild beasts. The average life of a slave on a cotton plantation is estimated not to exceed seventy years. They exhibited American slavery as they had seen and felt it; they showed its debasing character, injustice and impolicy, even in a temporal light; the oppression, cruelty, and wretchedness of the fugitive slave law, lately passed by both houses of Congress, and which is now the law in operation in that country. They also pointed out the means by which the system may be entirely suppressed, viz. by using free labor produce , and refusing to touch or taste any article produced or manufactured by slaves. In the United States, Brazil, and Spanish colonies, there are seven millions of slaves who produce , cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco and coffee, which articles are consumed in large quantities by the British nation. They give the slaveholder their money or manufactures in exchange for the products of the blood-stained fields, and thus furnish the means for continuing the atrocious system. The remedy is apparent - abstain from their produce and slavery must cease. A whip of a slave-driver was shown, which has often been wet with the blood of the oppressed slave. The whip was nine feet in length, a fearful weapon to be applied in the punishment of a human being. Manacles for the legs and neck, which had been manufactured in Birmingham, were also shown, and produced sensations of the most intense nature, and loud cries of "shame, shame." Both meetings were most enthusiastic. The Rev. James Pringle, from Newcastle, Revds. S. Watkinson and John Morris, with Mr. Wakinshaw, took a part in the proceedings of the evening. A vote of thanks was given to the rev. strangers in the same expressive manner as they had been greeted when they entered the meeting. A collection was taken for aiding the good work commenced; it was liberal, and showed the intense feeling of the meeting. After prayer, by the Rev. presiding gentlemen, the meeting separated. <br /><br />On Wednesday morning at 11, a most respectable meeting was held in Union Chapel, for forming a Ladies' Anti-Slavery Association , for promoting the sale of free labor produce . The Association was formed with all its office-bearers, and a considerable number of ladies have become members. There is something about these movements that leads us to contemplate the day as not far distant when slavery shall be no more. The Rev. Dr. Pennington preached last Sabbath evening in Dundas-street chapel, and in the morning in Smyrna chapel. The Rev. H.H. Garnet preached in the morning in Maling's Rig chapel, and in the evening in Union chapel. The Rev. Dr. Pennington addressed the children of St. George's Sabbath-school in the afternoon. - <em>Sunderland Herald,</em> Oct. 4. 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 10.31.1850 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meetings and Events Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lockport, NY; 11.18.1854 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource Free Produce Association At an adjourned meeting of the Free Produce Association , of Niagara Co., held in the basement of the Lutheran Meeting House, in Lockport, on the 18th of November, 1854, at 1 o'clock P.M., Marcus Stickney was chosen Chairman of the meeting; and Thos. E. Hartley appointed Secretary. The following Resolutions were then proposed, and unanimously adopted. Whereas we believe that slaveholding is opposed to the spirit and tenor of the Christian Religion, and mainly supported by the purchasers of the Slave labor; and, holding these views we regard it as our duty to abstain, as far as practicable, from the use of such productions and to increase the facilities for purchasing goods produced by free labor, therefore, Resolved , That we unite in an association under the above title, and hereby pledge ourselves to carry out those views, as far as is consistently practicable, by the purchase of such goods only as are the products of Free Labor. Resolved , That a committee of four be appointed to circulate the above resolution and pledge, and obtain signature thereto. Mead Atwater, Marcus Stickney, Titus Atwater, and T.E. Hartley were appointed as such Committee. Resolved , That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Lockport Journal. Resolved, That this meeting adjourn to meet on the 16th of December next at 10 o'clock, A.M., in the basement of the Lutheran Church in this village, unless some other place be designated prior to the meeting. All friendly to the cause are respectfully invited to attend, particularly the 51 men and women signer to the Constitution with others. MARCUS STICKNEY, Pres't . T.E. HARTLEY , Sec'y . 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 12.15.1854 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 Collins Free Produce Association - it's advantages, &c. (Article) Description An account of the resource The people of Collins, are very much like the people elsewhere, being quite willing that a few of their number should do all the labor and have all the honor of a work of reform until it is nearly consummated, when they are equally willing to share in the triumph if anything is to be gained by it. This remark will apply politically although intended for another purpose. For some years there have been in this vicinity two persons who are not content with the usual duties of the Abolitionist, in the common acceptation of that term. They have chosen to apply their labors in every direction calculated to cripple the energies of the slave power or hasten the overthrow of slavery. Accordingly they have singly and alone applied the abstinence principle to the products of slave-labor. More recently finding some to sympathise with them and a consequent increase in numbers, there has been an organization formed bearing the name of the heading of this article. The members of this organization calculate beforehand about how much sheeting, sugar, calico, &c., they will need respectively, and pay the estimated cost in advance, which is forwarded to New York or the American Free Produce Depot in Philadelphia, accompanied with the account of the kinds and amount of good wanted. They regard slave products the price of blood and oppression. The advantages as already to some extent witnessed are: 1st. A testimony against slavery that will ere long be felt and appreciated, and without which no Abolitionist can be consistent. 2nd. The removal of the sectarian bigotry and prejudice previously exhibited. 3d. A discouragement of the further multiplication of the Non-producers in the world. Aside from the subject of slavery then, there is this decided use: it prevents mercantile monopoly and saves the profits on the goods for the use of the consumer. When this system is perfected, there must of course be more producers and consequently less oppression. It is to be hoped that the contemplated National League will incorporate the free produce principle into its constitution. I would ask, that the readers of the North Star would seriously consider whether they are not losing much of the influence they possess by neglecting the scriptural injunction of "touch not, taste not, handle nor the unclean thing," the present use of which is rendering such aid to slaveholders. L.M. COLLINS CENTER, 11th mo. 1849. 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 11.23.1849