21 10 250 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Free Labor Produce--High Compliment to the Black Planters Description An account of the resource FREE LABOR PRODUCE—HIGH COMPLIMENT TO THE BLACK PLANTERS OF ST. CROIX. At this time, when the great question of the capability of free blacks to maintain themselves and successfully conduct business is more widely mooted than ever, it may not be uninteresting to mention that the cargo of sugar and molasses received at this port in the L.P. Snow, and sold by auction on Thursday last, the 29th ult., was pronounced by the company present to be <xsl-text></xsl-text>in finer order and better packed than any similar cargo ever offered for sale in Boston. <xsl-text></xsl-text>The product was wholly the labor of free blacks in the Island of St Croix, and brought prices which indicated its excellence—the sugar at $8 50 a $8 80 per hundred lbs., and the molasses at 881/4 a 40 1/2c per gallon. Chenery & Co. were the consignees of this cargo, and were generally felicitated upon the handsome manner in which their correspondents sent their produce to market.— <xsl-text></xsl-text>Boston Transcript, June <xsl-text></xsl-text>3 <xsl-text></xsl-text>d. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Liberator, reprinted from Boston Transcript Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6.13.1862 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sugar Growing Upon the Prairies. Description An account of the resource We give elsewhere an article which exhibits very encouraging result from experiments with the new Chinese Sugar Cane in Wabash county in this State last season.—One or two statements of the writer are so remarkable that we quote them here, by way of inviting special attention to the subject: "I am well convinced that in 1860 the Southern planter will have no sale for his sugar in the State of Illinois. From present indications, there will be 100 acres of Chinese Sugar Cane raised in Wabash county, worth $10,000." Let us figure a little upon this estimate. There are a hundred countries in the State, each of which probably will, on an average, annually consume sugar to the amount of $10,000, and if all were to raise their own, as Wabash seems likely to do, there would be an annual saving to the State of $1,000,000. Very soon, too, our population will have so increased as to consume double this amount of sugar, and then the saving will be $2,000,000, with a constant increase thereafter. This would be rather an important item to add to the agricultural productions of our State. And if the sugar culture proves successful, we shall in all probability grow a large surplus for exporation in the course of eight or ten years. It would be one of the most remarkable developments of free labor, in this century, if the Mississippi Valley should be able, at the end of the next fifteen years, to supply the sugar market of the world.— <xsl-text></xsl-text>Ex <xsl-text></xsl-text>. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Weekly Vincennes Gazette Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1.7.1857 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 We rejoice to hear Description An account of the resource From the South Shields (Eng.) Gazette. We rejoice to hear that a movement is making in North Shields on behalf of the Slave. The <xsl-text></xsl-text>opprobrium <xsl-text></xsl-text>of this civilized age, and of our Anglo-Saxon race, is, that slavery still exists in any land owning that race as masters. The foulest disgrace that ever hung over the sacred names of Christianity and Freedom has been indicted by the fact, that in lands where men pretend most to value their names, the degradation and pollution of a legalized bondage continues to be cherished and defended. British freemen have already done something to deliver themselves from the sin and shame of this system. They have subscribed large sums, and have entered into solemn treaties with slave countries having in view the mitigation and ultimate abolition of slavery; but, in spite of all, the horrors of the slave-trade never were more dreadful than at the present moment, and the cruelties perpetrated among slave-owners never more disgraceful. Free trade, which, as a general good, we have always advocated, has proved a source of grievous oppression to the slave. The demand which has sprung up in consequence, for the productions of many countries tilled by slaves, has caused their proportional oppression. The lash of the taskmaster has been plied more severely, and additional ships have been chartered for the slave-trade to a surprising extent, to supply the waste of human life thus occasioned. We are unwilling to do anything to infringe on the principles of free-trade; but can we do nothing to show our abhorrence of this system of wrong - of wholesale robbery and murder. It may be thought of a whole country into one channel by the force of a movement originating in mere benevolence; and yet we think nothing were more noble as a spectacle than the sight which Britain might present, were her households generally to refuse to partake of any commodities that had been the fruit of slave-labour. Self-denial is a Christian virtue; and if it should cause some slight curtailment of the luxuries of the table, or even a trifle of additional expense, true lovers of liberty would be more than compensated by the satisfaction that they had thus contributed to prepare for the final emancipation of the negro race. We are glad to learn, however, that the virtue of the British public need not encounter even such a test as this. Measures are talking to secure an ample supply of free-labour produce, which may be obtained by our tradesmen from London and Liverpool. Let our townsmen invariably apply for free-labor cottons of their drapers, and for free-labor sugars of their grocers - let them urge the necessity of procuring them as a matter of principle, and make known their determination to have them, and there is no doubt that means will be found to satisfy their reasonable demands. The plan we have now hinted at "is enough," says Elihu Burritt, "to abolish all the human slavery in existence. The way is easy and effective. It is the straight high-road of consistency, from which the sincere and honest abolitionist may not turn to the right, left, or backward. If every man, woman and child; who denounces slavery, should walk in that way, the fetters of the slave would burst from his limbs like singed strings of tow. The fires of the forge, whereat his manacles were fashioned, would go out. The many-thonged scourge would be hung up to the abhorrence of the world, with the old relics of man's inhumanity to man. Dragons and beasts of the wilderness would lair by day in the baracoons of the slave-trappers on the African coast; and all the prowling kidnappers in the world would confess their occupation gone." "Several merchants and manufacturers, and a large number of shopkeepers, are now co-operating in the plan for dealing a blow at slavery, by substituting Free for Slave-grown articles." It is not long since we were called to record the transmission of largely signed petitions to parliament on the subject of the Slave-trade from the Northern Borough, and now, we understand, the ladies of North and South Shields are getting up a spirited memorial to the Queen, which, we doubt not, will meet with universal support. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The North Star reprinted from South Shields Gazette Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 7.20.1849 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 Labor Goods. Description An account of the resource A committee was recently appointed by the Union Free Produce Society, of Chester and Lancaster counties, Pa. to inquire into the genuineness of goods professing to be free from the stain of slave labor. The committee addressed the following queries to Charles Collins, of New-York: RESPECTED FRIEND: By answering the following queries thou wilt much oblige thy friends, and confer a particular favor upon the advocates of abstinence from slave labor. 1st. From what source is thy free cotton obtained? and is the necessary care taken by the manufacturer to preserve it from a mixture with that which is not free? 2d. Is the coloring used by thee, free from the stain of slavery? 3d. Whence are thy groceries obtained? 4th. Is thy store supplied entirely with free goods, or are both kinds kept therein? Committee THOMAS HAMBLETON, ELIZABETH KENT. ELIZABETH HAMBLETON, To these questions Charles Collins returned the following reply: “I received yours, requesting answers to four queries. In reply to the first, I may say that I have had some free labor cotton from Friends in North Carolina, and some from Alabama. I expect some from Georgia, and may perhaps have some from Florida. From good information, I have reason to think that free labor cotton is to be had in all the south and southwestern States, where cotton is raised. It is produced by the labor of poor, white men and their children, in small quantities. Some raise two or three bales, and some more. Much of it is cleaner and better than slave grown cotton. A person from Florida, with whom I have been acquainted for several years, told me this week, that he could get 20 or more bales in his neighborhood. Another, now deceased, with whom I was very intimate, had resided in Charleston (S. C.) and went to Friend's meeting there. He said he thought that, by taking pains, there might annually be produced in South Carolina near one thousand bales of free labor cotton. He said it was brought to Charleston in one horse wagons, in the fall; but that from slave plantations was conveyed in large teams. In the English West Indies and Haiti, free labor cotton is raised; also in some parts of South America. I think I might safely engage to procure free labor cotton in much greater quantities than there is at present a demand for in the United States. Second: Indigo is a leading article in coloring. This mostly comes from Bengal, in India, and Caraccas, in South America, where it is raised free from slave labor. Not much is now raised in the South. Madder and woad, both principal articles, come from vegetables raised in Holland and England; of course free. As to other colors, I cannot say much about them. Third: Much of my sugar is raised on free labor plantations in Porto Rico, and Laguira. The loaf and lump sugar I purchase is made of Manilla, Siam, and other free sugars ; also Carthagena. I have white sugar from Canton; likewise Maple sugar . Fourth: I have kept a strictly free labor store, for 25 years and upwards; chiefly groceries, some cotton goods. I may, perhaps, have more cotton goods. There are now in the hands of a calico printer, about 8,000 yards for me; to be plain goods, and fast colors. From late information, I am led to think that sugar , &c. raised by free labor , is to be had in Louisiana. I have written for some. I prefer goods, the growth of our own country, because no duty is paid on them. Some of the money that goes into the national treasury is used to make war upon Indians, &c.; and in this I wish to take no part. Yesterday I engaged ten bales of upland cotton to be procured in Florida, by a person with whom I have been acquainted several years; he told me he thought he could get me a much larger quantity, in a neighborhood where were a considerable number of poor people who raised it without slavery. By consulting the Encyclopedia of Geography, in 3 vols. by Hugh Murray, published in Philadelphia, in 1838, thou wilt see a list of the British islands, all free; and that in the island of Porto Rico there were, in 1830, 323,838 persons. Of this number 34,240 were slaves; 127,287 free colored persons; and 162,311 whites. This shows that about one tenth are slaves. These slaves, I expect, are chiefly employed in boiling sugar . My mind is so much led to think of the South, that I have thought I would like to spend my winter there, buying free labor goods, and visiting slave plantations. If the several free produce societies would unite, they might perhaps make it worth while for some one to go there on that business. CHARLES COLLINS, No. 3 Cherry Street, New-York. FROM THE UNION FREE PRODUCE SOCIETY. Resolved, That the reply of Charles Collins, of New-York, to the iuterrogataries of our committee, received by this society, is satisfactory in detail. It tends to confirm the confidence hitherto reposed in him, as an agent for procuring goods uncontaminated by the gains of oppression, as exhibited in the system of American slavery. A TRIBUTE TO THE DEPARTED. At a stated meeting of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, held 3d month 10th, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Whereas, This society has recently been bereaved, by death, of one of its earliest and most self-denying members, Grace Douglass, and the abolitionists of this city and of our country, also, of another venerable coadjutor, James Forten, therefore, Resolved, That while we offer to their afflicted relatives and friends our warmest sympathies, we regard their removal from us as a call to renewed diligence in the work to which they devoted their energies, and in which we are permitted awhile longer to labor; and that, profiting by their exemplary lives and triumphant deaths, we will endeavor to follow them as they followed Christ. ANNA M. HOPPER, Secretary. 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 3.24.1842 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 A Question About Slavery Description An account of the resource A QUESTION ABOUT SLAVERY. Some persons are anxious to form societies, the members of which bind themselves to abstain from all articles produced by the labor of slaves. They believe that when planters can no longer find a market for the productions of slave labor, they will emancipate their slaves.— The colony at Liberia already offers some of the same articles, produced by free labor, and if sufficiently enlarged and strengthened, will furnish others; and as fast as the markets are furnished with coffee, rice, sugar, &c. from Liberia, the same articles, produced by slave labor, will be driven out of market. Must not the friends of 'free labor societies,' therefore, in order to be consistent, do all they can for the prosperity of that colony? —Vermont Chronicle.<xsl-text></xsl-text> The gravity with which the question is propounded in the foregoing paragraph, 'Must not the friends of free labor societies, in order to be consistent, do all they can for the prosperity of Liberia?' is truly ludicrous. The logic runs thus: it is desirable to obtain free goods— free goods are raised by the colonists— therefore it is the duty of <xsl-text></xsl-text>conscientious <xsl-text></xsl-text>individuals to give their support to the Colonization Society, which is abusing, proscribing, injuring, and attempting to expel one sixth portion of the American people, on account of their complexion! We assure the clear-sighted editors of the Chronicle that the members of free labor societies have no disposition 'to do evil that good may come,' by encouraging this monstrous crusade. 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 7.21.1832 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 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 Removal: Lydia White (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource REMOVAL LYDIA WHITE has removed from 219 North Second street, to the Northwest corner of Fifth and Cherry streets, where she will continue to keep a general assortment of groceries, the product of free-labor, wholesale and retail. Also, the dry goods manufactured by the American Free Produce Association. Just recived, fifty barrels prime Laguira sugar. Philadelphia, Second month 2d, 1843. 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 5.11.1843 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 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 Joshua C. Jenkins (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource JOSHUA C. JENKINS RESPECTFULLY informs his friends, and the public, that he has taken the old established TEMPERANCE GROCERY STAND of Baldwin & Colton, late J.F. Lukens & Co. Nos. 224 and 224 1-2 Market street, south side, above 7th, where he has on hand an extensive assortment of the choicest articles in the line, together with a stock of FREE LABOR GROCERIES, all which have been laid in at the lowest possible price for CASH, and will be furnished to families and storekeepers at a very small advance upon the first cost. Philadelphia, May 4, 1843. 6m. 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 5.11.1843 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 Chinese Sugar Cane-Will It Crystalize. Description An account of the resource As the season approaches for the conclusion of the experiments with the Sorghum, or Sugar Cane, much interest is felt on the subject. There is now no doubt that this plant can be most successfully cultivated in this latitude; and, should it prove easy to granulate or crystalize the sugar from the juice of the cane, the experiments will be entirely complete. It is true that Dr. Jackson, of Boston, and some other chemists of that class, have assumed that only glucose or grape sugar, could be made from the juice of the sorghum, but more careful and thorough investigations show that the greater portion of its saccharine matter is crystalizable. M. Herey, of France contends that no uncrystalized sugar pre-exists in the cane, and that the formation of glucose sugar is only owing to the action of the salts contained in the liquid during the manufacturing process. "Be it as it may," continues the report, "it is certain that the greater portion of the saccharine matter of the juice is crystalizable and may be obtained in the state of crystals, if, after rapid boiling and filtering, the fluid be quickly evaporated, the latter operation being a condition of absolute necessity in sugar-making, as, by slow boiling, at a temperature of 112 degrees, or even exposure for a considerable time to a temperature below the boiling point, glucose may be formed from the finest caystalized sugar dissolved in water. On the contrary, if the concentrated solution of sugar he heated beyond 230 degrees F., it undergoes alteration, and is changed, at least in part, into uncrystalizable sugar, or saccharine mucilage." Mr. Wray, of London, who is now in attendance upon the National Fair at Louisville, and who has perhaps more experimental knowledge upon the subject than any other man in the world, is quoted as good authority by the commissioner on the question of crystalization, and we presume that the experiments which he is now making from day to day will be equally conclusive upon the public mind. He has devoted years to the subject, pursuing his investigations in Africa and France, as well as in this country during the present season, and has obtained a patent for his process of sugar-making in England. Assuming, then that superior sugar can be made from the juice of the sorghum, it is hardly possible to exaggerate its importance as an addition to the crops of the temperate latitudes. Its value was discovered at just the period when the culture of the sugar-cane at the south had become a partial failure, and when also the general consumption of sugar began to outrun production. The world demanded that by some means, if possible, the supply should he increased, and in response to that demand, as if by providential arrangement, the country was supplied with the seed of the Sorghum and the Imphee, from which we are to have our first harvest of free labor sugar. It is a great event in the political economy of this country, if not of the world. We pay out annually many millions of dollars for foreign sugar, the crop of Louisiana at best meeting but a fraction of the demand. Last year it was estimated that the nation consumed not less than 700,000,000 pounds, and this amount, vast as it is, must continually increase if a sufficient supply can be obtained. In the Chinese sugar-cane we are now confident we have the source of an almost unbounded supply. It will flourish every where in the Union, and can be raised at the west as easily and cheaply as corn. Where, then, shall we fix the limit of its culture save in the demand for sugar and molasses? The prairies of Indiana and Illinois; besides growing all the breadstuffs they do now, might almost supply the markets of the world with those articles. We shall be content, however, for the next two or three years with enough of each to meet the home demand. The business can be indefinitely extended hereafter. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Weekly Vincennes Gazette Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9.9.1857 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 Voice of Warning. Description An account of the resource VOICE OF WARNING.--Mr. Bingham, a democratic representative of Michigan, in the House of Representatives, made a speech in Congress on the 4th ult., in which, alluding to the defeat of the Democratic party in 1848, he said: "Mr. Chairman, others may speculate as to the causes of that defeat. I have no hesitation in ascribing it to that fatal Nicholson letter, the doctrines of which were received by the people with such perfect loathing, the loss of the north, while the slaveholders of the south preferred to vote for the owner of a sugar plantation, with three hundred negroes. This was a mortifying defeat, but it may well be borne, if it inculcates this useful lesson that in this noon of the nineteenth century, when the down-trodden nations of Europe are bursting the fetters of tyranny which bound them to the earth for ages - when every breeze which crosses the Atlantic, wafts with it the cry of Liberty and the inalienable rights of man, from the uprising masses - the Northern statesman, to be successful, must prove true to the interests of free labor, which he represents, instead of being an accessary, to the cupidity of the southern slaveholder, who would doom his fellow man to perpetual bondage." - <xsl-text></xsl-text>Aman. & Repub. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The North Star reprinted from Aman. & Repub. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 7.18.1850 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 MARRIED-In Columbia Description An account of the resource MARRIED-In Columbia, (Lancaster County,) Pennsylvania, March 10th, 1836, Mr. WM. WHIPPER to Miss. HARRIET L.L. SMITH. May he prove as loving and devoted a husband, as he is the faithful and fearless advocate of good morals and the rights of man. It affords me great pleasure to inform you, that the wedding party was purely <xsl-text></xsl-text>abolition<xsl-text></xsl-text>, connected with the principles of <xsl-text></xsl-text>temperance. <xsl-text></xsl-text>Although there were all the delicacies necessary for such an occasion, yet the <xsl-text></xsl-text>cake <xsl-text></xsl-text>was not contaminated with the sweets produced by the toil, sweat and blood of the poor slave; but I am credibly informed, it was wholly the production of free labor. <xsl-text></xsl-text>Also the <xsl-text></xsl-text>kisses <xsl-text></xsl-text>(sugar) and fruits were wholly <xsl-text></xsl-text>free <xsl-text></xsl-text>and uncontaminated, a precedent which, if thoroughly established by abolitionists in general, at their parties, festivals, &c. would be a source of encouragement to many of our merchants, to bring into our markets the untainted productions of the <xsl-text></xsl-text>free man. <xsl-text></xsl-text>Many who hold that <xsl-text></xsl-text>wine <xsl-text></xsl-text>is as indispensable on a wedding occasion, as on a sacramental, will be surprised when I inform them that, on this occasion, it was wholly dispensed with; and there was substituted in its place, the more temperate, purer and healthier beverage—cold water. <xsl-text></xsl-text>The company appeared as agreeably and as well entertained, as if they had feasted on the luxurious sweets of the tainted productions of slavery, and regaled on the cordials of Bacchus. I hope this wedding feast will be imitated by all true and faithful abolitionists.—Com <xsl-text></xsl-text>. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Liberator reprinted from Com. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 4.30.1836