23 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 The Industrial College (Article) Subject The topic of the resource Discussion of Stowe's mention of free labor Description An account of the resource THE INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE. - An esteemed Anti-Slavery friend, in writing to us from Birmingham, England, says: - "I was much pleased with Frederick Douglass' letter to Mrs. Stowe, on his plan for an Industrial School, and the great importance of the Colored People advancing to manual arts, and fastening themselves to the white population through 'their cardinal and everyday wants.' I should like to have given an extract from it in our Report, which is just written, but it is linger than usual as it is. . . . . . . . . . I observe the at plan for the School matures. . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Stowe's address to her countrywomen, on the Nebraska Bill, is beautiful; but dearer to me than most of what she has written are her observations on the Free Labor movement, in the long address to the Glasgow ladies. From a multitude of duties, we must choose the nearest to us; and this, certainly, is the duty that especially devolves on the English, seeing that they support the system every day and hour in their commercial transactions. My husband says, if we looked on Slave Produce as poison , we should soon find the way to forego its use. What is it but poison to the slaveholder to help in the support of the system? I think it is because it is so little and simple a measure that we undervalue it; there is a prevailing idea that something great is needed to remove a great evil? I am not, however, finding any fault with the expression in your Report of the devotion and earnest labor required in the Anti-Slavery cause. No evils can be remedied without these." Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived 6.16.1854 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 The Ladies' Anti-Slavery Fair Description An account of the resource THE LADIES' ANTI-SLAVERY FAIR. Will be held on the 20th and 21st December— the Wednesday and Thursday before Christmas—affording an opportunity for the purchase of rare and beautiful Christmas and New Year's presents. The great variety of useful and ornamental articles already received, forms a tempting exhibition. Among those just received from friends in England, are most exquisitely wrought bags of 25 different patterns, varying in material, shape and price; but all combining elegance and simplicity:—some very costly, of Cashmere wrought with the most exquisite silk braids, intermingled with gold and silver thread, and of all colors, from bridal white and the paler shades, to rich deep velvet lints. Some of heavy satin, full-wrought with beading in a new style:—plain silk do. with rich cords, tassels and fringes:—a few of white, blue, and claret kerseymers e<xsl-text></xsl-text>n cabas, <xsl-text></xsl-text>silk-braided and highly finished with bagle trimming:—some of merino and satin, timboured:—many plain, very beautiful. A great variety of lustring, satin, Gros de naples and richly figured silk, with splendid line engravings and appropriate mottoes. (The plates from England). Rose-wood and mahogany desks and boxes, imitation ebony standishes and inkstands. Children's toys. Purses of strong but delicate fabric of various patterns and prices. Chimney and table ornaments. Alumette stands. Monumental vases of Grecian and Etruscan models. Watch cases. Sereens, splendidly embossed and painted—some of the richest white watered silk, with passion flower and convolvulus. Card and letter racks in the same style. A vast variety of needle-books and cases, pin balls and cushions, with striking and well chosen mottoes. Toilette covers and cushions. Bridal do. wrought with grape vine in white velvet and pearl bead-work trimmed with blonde. Infants' frocks and aprons; black silk and other aprons; perfume bags; wrought linen cambric hkdfs. Ladies' collars and capes of linen cambric, square hemstitched and of the PENSION pattern with thread edging. Ladies night-caps, very exquisite, with wrought inserting and, linen cambric frilled;—ladies' lace caps of the latest and most tasteful patterns, bonnet caps, children's and infants' hoods, some of showy color very richly trimmed with swansdown. Furs for tippets and neck-ties; boys' Scotch bonnets, shoes, glove-bands, muffetees. Hosiery of all sizes and materials. Gentlemen's linen, collars, &c. of various patterns; watch guards of braid and bead-work. Vests of elegant and beautiful styles. Worsted-wrought lamp-mats, and gentlemen's, ladies' and children's slippers, of extraordinary beauty. Wine-rubbers table-mats and vase-stands of a new and exquisite pattern, entirely unlike any thing that has before appeared for such purposes. Bed and cradle-quilts, thoroughly and completely made. Portfolios, and travelling and writing cases. Do. for centre-table of the most perfect neatness and convenience, completely fitted up. Dolls of various sizes, prices and qualities. Beautiful engravings—scenes in Scotland and Switzerland tinted with sepia and neutral tint in a new and opportune style. Lith. of George Thompson (a few proof impressions). Large and brilliantly col'd eng. 'interview of Volumnia and Vergilia with Coriolanus in the Volscian camp. Spirited mezzotinto of Rippingille's celebrated painting 'West India emancipation.' Marine view in oil by an English artist. Designs in water-colors, ornithological and Zoological, by English and American artists. Landscape cuttings. Hortus Siecus.—Valuable scrap books. Book of autograph essays; by the abolitionists of the present day. Book of opinions of distinguished statesmen on slavery, with the autograph of each. Report of Glasgow Ladies' Emancipation Society—a deeply interesting document. Anti-slavery seals and medals. Manilla work baskets fitted up for children with needles, cotton, &c. complete.—Baskets made by the last of the Natick tribe of Indians. Children's frocks of silk and french print. Sweetmeats of various fruits, and confectionery; made with free sugar. A box of useful clothing suited to the season;— with many curious and indescribable articles too numerous to particularize. In the preparation of the refreshments, coffee, cake, blanc-mange, &c. care has been taken to procure free sugar. The managers gratefully acknowledge aid from the following sources: From ladies of Darlington (Eng.) by A.E. Grimke, $115 36 From ladies of Glasgow, 61 00 From ladies of Manchester, 28 21 From ladies of Fitchburg, 24 12 From ladies of Kingston, 4 50 From ladies of N. Bedford 7 00 From ladies of Ashburnham, 8 00 From ladies of South Weymouth, 17 00 From ladies of Newburyport, 5 00 From ladies of Hanover (Juvenile Soc.) 6 00 From ladies of Louisa Phillips, 1 00 From ladies of Margaret Jones, 2 00 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 12.15.1837 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 The Ladies' Fair Description An account of the resource The proposed Anti-Slavery Fair was held on Thursday, the 22d of December. The choice of that day was accidental; but it was a pleasant and appropriate manner of celebrating the Anniversary of the Pilgrims. The convenient and well-lighted hall called the Artist's Gallery, was duly prepared for our reception, and we had not the slightest reason to complain of reluctance or want of courtesy on the part of the proprietor. The Hall was filled with visitors at an early hour, and continued full until late in the evening. Very many of these were not abolitionists, but belonged to a large and increasing class of the community, who have been strongly abolitionized by Anti-Slavery efforts. Not a few of the wives and daughters of 'gentlemen of property and standing' were among the purchasers. A piece of the old oak of the Constitution was offered for sale; and we regretted that we had not placed beside it the relics of the Anti-Slavery Sign, destroyed by a Patrician Mob in 1834. Around the Hall was placed in large letters the motto: 'On this day did our FATHERS land on the ROCK OF FREEDOM; let us stand firmly on this Rock.' The cake-table was loaded with varieties of cake, made of sugar not manufactured by slaves, and near it was placed the motto, FREE LABOR, One of our friends sent a jar of deliciously fresh Grapes, and a dozen Pomegranites, accompanied by a very pleasant note, expressing the hope that 'the enslaved children of Africa might soon be enabled to sit under their own vine and fig-tree, with none to molest or make them afraid.' There was great variety in the articles, and many of them were very handsome and tasteful. The ladies have ever regarded the pecuniary benefit derived from these sales as but one of several reasons in their favor. The main object is to keep the subject before the public eye, and by every innocent expedient to promote perpetual discussion. We wish to bring Truth and Falsehood in continual juxtaposition, for we know full well that 'truth never came off the worse in a fair and open encounter.' To promote this favorite object, various mottoes and devices were stamped upon the articles offered for sale. Bunches of quills bore the label, 'Twenty-five Weapons for Abolitionists.' On the wafer-boxes was written, 'The doom of Slavery is sealed.' On one side of the pen-wipers was inscribed, 'Wipe out the blot of Slavery;' on the other, 'Plead the cause with thy Pen.' On some needle-books was printed, 'May the use of our needles prick the consciences of slaveholders;' others were made in the form of small shoes, and on the soles was written, 'Trample not on the Oppressed.' Some watch-cases bore the inscription, 'The political economist counts time by years, the suffering slave reckons it by minutes;' on others was written, 'The greatest friend of Truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice.' Small silken bags of perfume, for bureau drawers, bore the motto, 'The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.' The iron-holders were marked, 'Anti-Slave-Holders.' Small hearts cut from a knot of white oak were called, 'Hearts of Oak for Abolitionists.' A cradle-quilt was made of patch-work in small stars; and on the central star was written with indelible ink; 'Mother! when around your child You clasp your arms in love, And when with grateful joy you raise Your eyes to God above— Think of the negro-mother, When her child is torn away— Sold for a little slave— oh, then, For that poor mother pray!' Ornamental stands for alumets, to light candles, bore the motto, 'LIGHT, whether material or moral, is the best of all Reformers.' Book-marks of various colored ribbons were printed with sentences similar to the following: 'Speak the Truth in Love;' 'Remember those in Bonds.' There were some very handsome Contribution-boxes, of bronzed copper: they were surmounted by a kneeling slave; on one side was the open Bible, and the rays that emanated from it were melting the links of a chain; on the other side was inscribed the motto, 'God loveth a cheerful giver.' The candy, and various other articles of confectionary for children, were wrapped in paper, on which were printed the following verses: Come, little ones! for the sweets ye see, Were made by the labor of the FREE; And freely to-day ye may partake, Even for the toil-worn bondman's sake! For the price you pay perchance may save From the cruel scourge some tortured slave:— (Your friends will explain how a single cent May cause the steeled heart to relent.) And year after year, as Christmas comes, With its papers of pleasant sugar-plums, Ever be careful to enquire Respecting the fact of the LABORER'S HIRE. Work-bags were manufactured in commemoration of little Med's case, decided by Judge Shaw, in a manner so honorable to himself and his country. On one side was the representation of a Slave kneeling before the figure of Justice; underneath, these sentences were printed in golden letters: 'Slavery was abolished in Massachusetts, by the adoption of the Bill of Rights as a part of the Constitution, A.D. 1780.' Slavery says of this law, 'Lo, 'tis cold and dead, and will not harm me.' Anti-Slavery replies, 'But with my breath I can revive it!' Then follows, 'The adjudication on the case of a slave brought into Massachusetts from another State, fifty-six years afterward, Aug. 26, A.D. 1836.' On the other side of the bag, the Arms of Massachusetts surmount the following lines: 'Old Massachusetts yet Retains her earlier fires! Still on our hills are set The altars of our sires! Our 'fierce democracies' Have yet their strength unshorn! And giant power shall see Its Gaza-gates uptorn.' August 26, A.D. 1836, There was a small 'Thermometer of the Heart,' fastened upon a pillar of white sugar. The glass tube was filled with rose-colored spirits of wine, which rose with the warmth of the hand. The scale from freezing point upward was thus graduated: The ladies wish to return their warm acknowledgments to friends in neighboring towns, and to several gentlemen for their kind donations and active assistance. Among these gentlemen we would gratefully remember John E. Fuller, Orra Goss, and John C. Smith. DONATIONS— East Bradford, $23,75; Lynn, $50; Amesbury, $5; Bedford, $37; Hingham, $6; Andover, $13; Haverhill, $20; Reading, in money, $5; 2 Ladies from Washington, D.C., $2; South Weymouth, $7,08; Weymouth, 6,28; Juvenile Anti-Slavery Sewing Circle, $25,61; Cambridge-port, $38. The amount of money received was $550;* and the next morning the ladies paid all that remained of their pledge of one thousand dollars to the Massachusetts Society! L.M.C 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 1.2.1837 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource L.M.C. (Lydia Maria Child) 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 Philadelphia Free Produce Association of Friends Description An account of the resource Selections.<xsl-text></xsl-text> THE PHILADELPHIA FREE PRODUCE ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS. AT the meeting of this Association [which we copy from the <xsl-text></xsl-text>Friends’ Review<xsl-text></xsl-text>], held the 20th ult., the following report from the Board of Managers was read and approved. The Board of Managers of the Philadelphia Free Produce Association of Friends, report: That, during the past year, the members of the Board have frequently met and given their attention to the subjects connected with the design of their Association; but, in consequence of the arrangement with our friend George W. Taylor, which has existed for two or three years past, the principal labour, both in relation to the manufacture of cotton goods, and a supply of groceries, has devolved upon him. His report, herewith submitted, will furnish a view of the state of the concern in regard to supply and demand. And here we may remark, without any disposition to cast unkind reflections upon others who do not take the same view upon this subject, which we have been induced to embrace, that we cannot do otherwise than regret the want of an active and cordial support, on the part of many members of our Society, of the effort thus made to supply consumers with the products of tropical climates, unstained by oppression and cruelty. While Friends, wherever located, and however circumstanced, without exception profess, and no doubt profess with sincerity, an unwavering conviction of the injustice and iniquity of the whole system of Slavery; and while none can deny that the entire burden of this fabric of violence and wrong is supported by the market for the produce of servile toil, still we do not find the active and decided preference to the productions of free labour, which the nature of the case, and the declared opinions of Friends in general, would lead us to expect. If Friends in general could be induced to supply themselves, whenever it can be done, with the products of the free labour, to the exclusion of those which are extorted from the drudgery of slaves, we can readily perceive that the increased demand thus created, would greatly facilitate the supplying of free goods, and reduce their cost to the level of those of a servile origin. With equal advantages and facilities in regard to supply and demand, free-labour can readily compete with that of Slavery. But while the mass of consumers purchase, without distinction, whatever can be found in the market, irrespective of the medium through which it is received, some enhancement of price must attend the production and transit from the producer to the consumer of those articles which are untouched by servile hands. At the same time, we have unquestionable and sorrowful evidence that the advocates of Slavery have not, in any degree, relaxed their efforts to perpetuate, and to extend into regions hitherto free, the oppressive, impolitic, and demoralizing system of Slavery. The attempts, now making, to introduce the system into California—the recent legislation in some of the States in relation to the coloured race—the effort, during the present session of the Pennsylvania Legislature, to procure an enactment excluding them from settling in the State, calculated, as it evidently was, to facilitate the capture of real or suspected fugitives from labour—the actual repeal of one section of the law to prevent kidnapping, which was passed in 1847 with almost unprecedented unanimity—and the manner in which the support of an oppressive and disgraceful law has been interwoven into the question of the Presidential election, as well as the subserviency to a slaveholding influence which has been manifested by aspirants to political distinction, may well awaken the anxiety of those who believe that it is righteousness that exalteth a nation, and that sin is not only a disgrace, but a certain precursor of calamity to any people. These circumstances evidently call for the exertion of such influence as we possess, to stem the tide of corruption which Slavery is pouring upon us. We have, however, the consolation to believe that the attention of many of the philanthropists of Europe has been unceasingly directed to this branch of the subject—the encouragement of free-labour—and the supply of tropical products by means not dependant upon servile toil. The new settlements on the African coast seem likely to bring various articles of tropical growth, produced entirely by the industry of free men, into successful competition with the products of American Slavery. The experiments recently made upon flax, as a substitute for cotton, furnish ground for a reasonable hope, that the time is not very remote when the products of the North may rival those of the South, in furnishing a cheap and comfortable article of domestic economy. Although the efforts of this Association have not been productive of any very obvious results, we may take encouragement from the signs of the times, and a thorough conviction of the goodness of our cause, to entertain a humble, yet confiding, hope that they may compose one of those little rills which, widening and deepening with the progress of time, and joining with homogenial streamlets, will at length (probably after we shall all have been gathered to the house appointed for all living) compose a river which shall sweep away this mighty fabric, which now stands a frowning monument of the barbarism of ages that are past, and of the blindness and cupidity of the period in which we live. On behalf of the Managers, SAMUEL RHOADES, Secretary of the Board. <xsl-text></xsl-text>Philadelphia, Fourth month <xsl-text></xsl-text>20 <xsl-text></xsl-text>th <xsl-text></xsl-text>, 1852. 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 6.3.1852 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Samuel Rhoades / Rhoads 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 The Products of Free Labor Description An account of the resource THE PRODUCTS OF SLAVE LABOR. BART. Lancaster Co. Pa. 3d mo. 1847. A review of the sentiments of W.L. Garrison, on the products of slave labor, as published in the Liberator, March 5th, 1847. I have read with much interest thy arguments on this (in my opinion) important question; but instead of being shaken or convinced thereby, I have been more confirmed in my opinions in relation thereto. It appears that our first convictions were the same; mine continue unchanged. Thee says thee 'was soon satisfied' thee 'erred in judgment,' in relation to persons being directly involved in the support of the system of slavery,' who used the produce. How thee discovered that error, to me, is a perfect riddle. Thee considers 'slave-holders, slave-traders and slave-drivers are to be placed on the same level of infamy, and in the same fiendish category, as kidnappers and men-stealers'; and I would add to the list, SLAVE PRODUCE CONSUMERS, and ask no other justifications for so doing than they sentiments as published in the Liberator of 1832:--'I hold this truth to be self-evident--that no transfer, or inheritance, or sale of stolen property, can convert it into just possession, or destroy the claim of the original owner: the maxim being universally conceded to be just, that the receiver is as bad as the thief.' 'Truth' cannot change; man may, but it cannot; it is as eternal as the hills. All our ideas of justice in relation to other things confirm these statements. The non-abstainers, such as 'the Jacksons, the Phillipses, the Quincys, the Fosters, &c. need no certificate from any person, that they are as willing to bear heavy burdens in the anti-slavery cause,' &c. That is truly commendable, and worthy of imitation; but does that circumstance prove them perfect? Certainly not. There may be duties not yet seen in the light in which they ought to be seen; and I am not withoutvidence, that this is one of those duties. It has been announced, in a Clarkson anti-slavery meeting, and that, too, by a leading abolitionist, that A.K. Foster acknowledged, in his presence, that her doctrine in relation to this subject would not bear the strict scrutiny of conscience. It has been admitted by many persons, that she hindered the cause for a time; but the people, in their sober second thought, returned to their first principles. I do not wish any one to think she intended to produce that effect. She held that all ought to abstain but those who labored, like herself, for the slave, and used his labor with his consent. The idea of having the slave's consent to be murdered, to be robbed of every right, to be bought and sold, to be 'Driven like a senseless brute from day to day.' to me is perfectly horrible. The consent of the slave ought to mean the consent of justice. Wendell Phillips acknowledged (I think) the principles of abstinence, in his excellent speech delivered in Faneuil Hall, Dec. 20th, 1846. 'After all, the proud southerner is but the overseer of the plantations for the merchants of the North. Our banks discount for him, our capital sustains him, our wharves receive the ships laden with his cotton. It is Liverpool that fixes the price; his plantations are mortgaged to Northern men. He works for us; he is our slave. When they tell you to go to the South to preach on slavery, they tell you to go to the slaves; for white and black are slaves to this moneyed-eyed aristocracy,' &c. They remarks with regard to the free produce agitation, being confined almost exclusively to the Society of Friends,' seems to be unfortunate. It is well known that, before emancipation took place in England, thousands then abstained from the use of slave grown productions. But, suppose it was entirely confined at present to that Society--that circumstance would not prove it right or wrong. I think at one time, that Society stood alone in the advocacy of peace principles, and thee will not say that that fact proved it in error. I have nothing to say in favor of any church organization; I believe their creeds only serve to distract mankind, and hinder the progress of truth. 'If whatever is raised by slave cultivation, or is tainted with fraud or oppression, is to be rejected for that reason, then there is scarcely any thing in the world that it is allowable to use as pertaining to money, food and clothing.' The extensiveness of crime does not diminish its criminality; if it did, the principle of war in this country has nearly lost its criminality. When you held your enthusiastic meetings to oppose the war now waging--to pass resolutions condemning it as wicked, murderous, &c.--also to adopt a pledge, stating therein, that you would not voluntarily support the war, &c.; why did thee not, if thee wishes to be consistent, use the same language then, that thee has to us in relation to this quesiton? i.e. that it is a subject of 'comparatively small importance'--that it is wasting time upon what no man could strictly reduce to practice'--that it is so mixed up with the commerce, manufactures, currency, governments, &c. &c. 'that it would be impossible to make any vital issues' in the manner the pledge laid down? I do not approve of voluntarily aiding the war; but it seems to me, the cases are analogous. I think the currency of the country, to a great extent, is free. The fact that a slave's value has been represented by a given amount of money, no more taints the money, than it does the figures which told the sum. But all money that the slave's labor has brought into use is tainted. But suppose I admit the currency is all tainted, (which I do not,) does that prove me more inconsistent if I use it, than you are in relation to the war? You will not directly aid it, but indirectly you aid it in a thousand ways, perhaps. All I ask of you is, to set the abstinence question on the same ground. You exclaim, 'Every attribute of justice is opposed to the war,' and the same is admitted with regard to slavery; but your action is unequal. You will not, if you can avoid it, give your money to buy munitions of war; but you will buy cotton, sugar, coffee, rice, tobacco, &c. which are stained with the blood of the slave, and wet with female tears, directly from the South. The cry of 'return the blood-stained money' has been sounded through all Scotland; but some of your have said, the crime was, in not bearing a testimony against slaveholding. Why did you not rest there in regard to the war? Why did you add to your good theory, the practice? i.e. we will not buy cannon, muskets, swords, &c. for you to slaughter human beings with? In that case, you carried out your principles. I call upon you to refuse, from henceforth, to directly support slavery by purchasing the slave's labor, when you can avoid it. Send Douglass and others through this country, as you have through England, with the message--'Return the goods--they are the price of blood!' We have been told, again and again, that we are not consistent. Is consistency all we are aiming at? A man may be a perfect devil, and yet act out his profession: this is what is called consistency. I agree that we ought to be consistent with correct principles; but I see no greater obligations resting upon us, in this case, than in any other of equal importance to be so. But thee acknowledges the principle, when thee says, the proceeds of slave labor can be 'innocently used by no other person' but those who are laboring for the slave. I will leave the renders of thy paper to judge, whether they who labor for the slave, can be justified in consuming his labor for their support. But it appears to me, it would be about equal, in point of consistency, to a man justifying himself in holding slaves, because he preached faithfully against the practice. LEA. W. GAUSE Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lea W. Gause Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Liberator 17:15, p. 59 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 4.9.1847 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Products of Slave Labor Description An account of the resource FRIEND GARRISON: I perceive among other interesting matters in the Liberator of the 10th, a communication freom Lea. H. Gause, of Pennsylvania, solisting your views and opinions isn regard to the products of slave-labor by yourself and other advocates of the anti-slavery cause. Seeing no reply in the last number, as intimated, and anpposing it to be crowded out by other matters, and having given the subject considerable reflection myself, without being able to arrive at any given point to which conscience would say, 'Thus far shaft thou coine,' (with safety,) 'and no further—and being desirous of more light, as well as others, on the subject, I should be glad if you or some others would freely express your views. Friend Gause says—'To me, there has been no anti-slavery duty more clear, than that of abstaining' (from the produce of slave labor)—and signifies that he has practically adopted the motto of 'No Union with Slaveholders'—meaning to be understood, no doubt, as giving no voluntary aid to the system of slavery whatever. Whether the writer keeps clear from any participation, and in any way from contributing to the support of slavery, because in more favorable circumstances, than many others who do not entirely obtain—or form fixed principles to abide the consequences, cost what it may—is a very different thing, in my opinion. But as that 'duty is clear' to the writer of the communication, I hope its rays will shine into the minds of all the haters of slavery. I think there are few persons, if any, in this section of the country, who have suffered more for the slave then myself; and I am yet suffering, in some degree, pressing onward to the extent of my ability in behalf of the down-trodden; and if there is any thing more that I can do, than what I am doing, to benefits the cause, I am anxious to be made acquainted with it. I have, for a long time, made use of free labor produce, when it came in competition with slave labor produce; and I often pay higher prices for the former. But, as slave produce and taxation for slavery comes in so many forms, I think it is very difficult for me to avoid participating in it altogether. For instance—I have, for the last year and a half, spent more than three-fourths of my time lecturing on the subject of slavery, in different sections of this country. Much of the food placed before me, I have reason to believe, is mixed with the products of slave labor. If I ask whether it is free or slave labor, I get no satisfactory answer. At night, the only had can sleep in is mostly compesed of the produce of slave labor. Most of the means by which I sustain myself and family, are the little profits I derive ferom the sale of anti-slavery publications, pristed on slave-grown cotton. I have a family to clothe and feed, with my limited means, which compels me to procure the cheaped articles, to meet their necessaties as well as I can and it is mixed with the products of unpaid labor. I subscribe for an anti-slavery, or say other reformatory periodical. It comes to me through a post office, managed by a slaveholder, printed on slave-grown cotton paper. I write a letter to my wife, or to you, friend Garrison I and what do I write on, but paper manufactured from cotton raised by slave labor! And it reaches its destination by the directions of a slaverholder—&c. &c. Again, if we try to evade the use of these slave grown articles, and substitute imported articless in their place, we are paying a tax to support a slaveholding government, all steeped in innocent blood, and now carrying on a disbelical war against a freeble government, for the sake of establishing parmanently the traffis in helpless men, women and children on its soil, where it had been abolished by a half civilised people. Yours, for the annihilation of slavery and war by all right means, JONATHAN WALKER. 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 3.5.1847 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jonathan Walker 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 Poetry 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 Reformer (Poem) Description An account of the resource All grim and solid and brown with tan, I saw a Strong One, in his wrath, Smiting the godless shrines of man Along his path. The Church beneath her trembling done Essayed in vain her ghostly charm; Wealth shook within his guilded home With pale alarm. Fraud from his secret chambers fled Before the sunlight bursting in; Sloth drew her pillow o'er her head To drown the din. "Spare," Art implored, "yon holy pile; That grand, old, time-worn turret spare;" Meek Reverence kneeling in the aisle, Cried out "Forbear!" Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept, to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes, O'erhung with paly locks of gold, "Why smite," he asked in a sad surprise, "The fair, the old!" Yet louder rang the Strong One's stroke, Yet nearer flash'd his axe's gleam; Shuddering and sick of heart I woke, As from a dream. I looked: aside the dust-cloud rolled-- The Water seemed the Builder too; Upspringing from the ruined Old I saw the New. 'Twas but the ruin of the bad-- The wasting of the wrong and ill; Whate'er of good the old time had Was living still. Calm grew the brows of him I feared; The frown which awed me passed away, And left behind a smile which cheered Like a breaking Day, Green grew the grain on battle-plains, O'er Swarded war-mounds grazed the cow; The slave stood forging from his chains The spade and plow. Where frowned the fort, pavilions gay And cottage windows, flower entwined, Looked out upon the peaceful bay And hills behind. Through vine-wreathed cups with wine once red, The lights on brimming crystal fell, Drawn, sparkling, from the rivulet head And mossy well. Through prison walls, like heaven-sent hope, Fresh breezes blew, and sunbeams strayed; And with the idle gallows-rope The young child played. Where the doomed victim in his cell Had counted o'er the weary hours, Glad school-girls, answering to the bell, Came crowned with flowers. Grown wiser from the lesson given, I fear no longer, for I know That where the share is deepest driven, The best fruits grow. The outworn right, the old abuse, The pious fraud transparent grown, The good held captive in the use Of Wrong alone-- These wait their doom, from that great law Which makes the past time serve to-day; And fresher life the World shall draw From their decay. Oh! backward-looking son of time!-- The new is old, the old is new, The cycle of a change sublime Still sweeping through. So wisely taught the Indian seer: Destroying Seva, forming Brahm, Who wake by turns Earth's love and fear, Are one, the same. As idly as in that old day Thou mournest, did thy sires repine, So, in his time, thy child grown gray, Shall sigh for thine. Yet, not the less for them or thou The eternal step of Progress beats To that great anthem, calm and slow, Which God repeats! Take heart!--the Waster builds again-- A charmed life old goodness hath, The tares may perish--but the grain I not for death. God works in all things; all obey His first propulsion from the night; Ho! wake and watch!--the world is gray With morning light! Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Greenleaf Whittier Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Non-Slaveholder 2:1, pp. 22-3 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 Poetry 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 Rescue of Jerry Description An account of the resource From the Syracuse Journal. THE RESCUE OF JERRY. "Jerry," arrested under the Fugitive Slave Law, October 1st, 1852,--on which day the country Agricultural fair, and also an Anti-slavery convention, were hold at syracuse,--was on the same day reseed, and set at liberty by the people, it was as event not surely of level but of national importance, and will forever redound to the honor of our city and country. The following, from one who sometimes courts the favor of the Muses, is in commemoration of it: Beneath a bright October sun, Had come from far and wide The free and hardy sons of toil, Old Onondaga's pride. The ploughman from the fold was there, The thresher from his floor, Ceased for a time the hammer's stroke, Closed was the smithy door. From farm and factory, forge and fold, From valley and from hill, Where speeds the plow, or plies the Ioom, Or clacks the busy mill; From where upon her many hills The gives her rocky store, Or where from sunken shaft beneath Her briny treasures pour; From busy mart, where thriving trade Its generous profit yield, And from her rural hearths and homes, Whence labor drives afield, Came up to-day, in peaceful show, Strong for the Tree and Right, The people in their majesty, The people in their might. Free labor holds her festival, Where he is honored most, Who honors her in heart and homes— Of all this mighty heat. Free Laborholds her festival, Her gals day has come, And thanks from grateful hearts go up, With songs of harvest house. Abundance crowns a year of tail, And plenty, from her born, Has scattered wide her generous fruits, Her wine, and oil, and corn. But, hark! what sound is that which breaks Discordant on the car? why peals the tocsin bell to-day, This day of all the year? Can here, within this Northern had, This land which freedom gave, Be found a dastard wretch so mean, That he would hunt a slave? Take on his soul the damning curse, Unleash the yelping pack Of bloodhounds snuffing human prey To follow on the track? Too true, alas! for see, in chains A trembling captive stands, The fatters on his swollen limbs, The cords upon hi hands! Upon his face, in deepened lines, Is written wan despair, While heartfelt groans his heaving breast Sends out upon the air. The fear of Federal power prevails, The shameful bribe has won, The threat of Webster is fulfilled, The cruel deed is done! No! not yet done, not yet fulfilled, Not yet th' exultant yell Peals through the vaulted arch of Heaven, "The banner cry of Hell." No hunting-ground for slaves is this,— And murmurs deep and loud Denote the coming storm, which swells, As swells the gathering crowd; And as defiance marks each tone, Stout hearts and hands unite To help a brother in his need, 'Gainst Wrong to shield the Right. The blood-red and of power has l The terror it inspired, The People Liberty have crowned! With freedom they are fired! Till like the angry see, whose waves Break madly on the shore, They dash against his prison walls, Break down his prison door, Strike off the fetters from his limbs, The cords which bind his hands,— A MAN again—no more a <xsl-text></xsl-text>slave<xsl-text></xsl-text>— The rescued JERRY stands! Injustice for a while may flaunt, Wrong seem to hold its away, But Right shall fellow in their path, As follows night the day. God speed the Right! O baste the day When everywhere shall run The precepts of thy Truth and Love, The Gospel of thy Son; When every man in every man A brother he shall see, And all shall in the Royal Law Dwell as one family! Then the bright Sun, upon a world, Which Jesus died to save, "Shall rise upon no bondman, And shall set upon no slave." Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Liberator reprinted from The Syracuse Journal Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12.12.1862 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 THE SLAVE MARKET: From the Berean. Description An account of the resource THE SLAVE MARKET In the following article, the principle, long contended for in this work, is clearly and distinctly embraced. The slave market must be abolished, or the "slave trade" can NEVER be destroyed. It is also equally true that, were the cotton and sugar purchasers to confine their dealings to articles which are the exclusive production of free labour, the system of slavery itself would soon be done away. From the Berean. We some time ago published extracts from a pamphlet on West India Slavery, wherein the disuse of West India produce is ably advocated as an efficient means of putting an end to the evil. The following extract of a letter from "an intelligent planter of South Carolina," lately published in the "National Gazette," may serve to show that the disuse of cotton and rice, would be equally effectual in abolishing American slavery. The subject is well worth the attention of the christian, the philanthropist and the patriot. There never will be an end to the slave-trade, whilst a market is to be found for slaves. Those who bear a testimony against war, offensive and defensive, must have their minds forcibly arrested by a remedy for slavery and the slave trade, so pacific and so entirely consistent with their principles. Frequent appeals have been made to government, on the subject of the slave trade, and a murderous naval force has been sent out; force has been opposed to force; and the ocean stained with blood. Do the friends of peace perceive no objection to the use of such means, which after all, can only lop off the branches of the corrupt tree?--Will they not prefer a course, which, whilst it violates no principle, human or divine, strikes at the very root of the evil? The extract, &c.--"The commercial and agricultural interests, of this section of the Union, are in a very prosperous condition. Slaves have taken a great rise, ALONG WITH COTTON AND RICE, The value of prime negro labourers is almost as great as it was ten years ago. The resolutions of Mr. King and Mr. Tucker, offered to Congress, are considered here as nearly chimerical. As LONG AS THE SOUTHERN ARTICLES OF PRODUCE SHALL COMMAND A GOOD PRICE, NEGRO SLAVES WILL NOT ONLY BE VALUABLE, BUT NECESSARY TO THEIR OWNERS." Now let the consumers of "southern articles of produce," who profess to be the friends of injured Africa, "bind these words for a sign" upon their hands, and let them be as frontlets between their eyes--when they walk by the way, when they lie down, and when they rise up, let them "talk of them:" but especially let them "talk of them," when they sit in their stores, and when at the festive board. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Genius of Universal Emancipation 4:9, p. 136 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6.1825 https://productsoffreelabor.com/files/original/60d4614f97f6853212c8c6fde4c224e3.jpeg a07ff7dbd74a912558adedbcb4fbf27e 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 Poetry 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 Sugar-Plums. (Poem) Description An account of the resource No, no, pretty sugar-plums ! stay where you are! Though my grandmother sent you to me from so far ; You look very nice, you would taste very sweet. And I love you right well, yet not one will I eat. For the poor slaves have labour'd, far down in the south, To make you so sweet and so nice for my mouth ; But I want no slaves toiling for me in the sun. Driven on with the whip, till the long day is done. Perhaps some poor slave child, that hoed up the ground. Round the cane in whose rich juice your sweetness was found, Was flogg'd, till his mother cried sadly to see, And I 'm sure I want nobody beaten for me. So grandma, I thank you for being so kind. But your present, to-day, is not much to my mind ; Though I love you so dearly, I choose not to eat Even what you have sent me by slavery made sweet. Thus said little Fanny, and skipp'd off to play. Leaving all her nice sugar-plums just where they lay. As merry as if they had gone in her mouth. And she had not cared for the slaves of the south. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Elizabeth Margaret Chandler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The poetical works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler: with a memoir of her life and character The Genius of Universal Emancipation The Liberator The Slave's Friend Juvenile Poems for the Use of Free American Children of Every Complexion Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lemuel Howell Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1836