6 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 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 Christmas (Poem) Description An account of the resource Mother, when christmas comes once more, I do not wish that you Should buy sweet things for me again, As you were used to do : The taste of cakes and sugar-plums Is pleasant to me yet, And temptingly the gay shops look, With their fresh stores outset* But I have learn'd, dear mother. That the poor and wretched slave Must toil to win their sweetness. From the cradle to the grave. And when he faints with weariness Beneath the torrid sun. The keen lash urges on his toil. Until the day is done. But when the holy angels' hymn, On Judea's plains afar, Peal'd sweetly on the shepherds' ear, 'Neath Bethlehem's wondrous star, They sung of glory to our God, — "Peace and good will to men," — For Christ, the Saviour of the world, Was born amidst them then. And is it for His glory, men Are made to toil, With weary limbs and breaking hearts, Upon another's soil? That they are taught not of his law, To know his holy will, And that He hates the deed of sin, And loves the righteous still ? And is it peace and love to men, To bind them with the chain, And sell them like the beasts that feed Upon the grassy plain ? To tear their flesh with scourgings rude, And from the aching heart. The ties to which it fondliest clings, For evermore to part ? And 'tis because of all this sin, my mother, That I shun To taste the tempting sweets for which Such wickedness is done. If men to men will be unjust, if slavery must be. Mother, the chain must not be worn ; the scourge be plied for me. 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 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 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 Slave Luxuries (Essay) Description An account of the resource I BELIEVE it is Addison who declared, in one of his essays, that the sight of a luxuriously spread table, always exhibited to his imagination, the sight of innumerable diseases lying in ambush among the dishes. An idea, somewhat similar to this, has arisen in my mind with respect to an entertainment imbued with the spirit of the slave-cultivated cane. I have fancied that the death-sigh of some unfortunate victim of oppression might be yet trembling on the bosom of a jelly, and the rich flavour of a conserve conceal the briny tears that have mingled with the saccharine crystals that enter into its composition. A pound-cake seems like the sepulchre of the broken heart with which it may, perhaps, have been purchased, and the delicious ice to wear the red tinge of human blood. If those who un- scrupulously partake of these delicacies, had beheld the horrors by which they are too often purchased, if they could witness, gathered up before them, all the agony endured by their fellow- creatures, only that the gratification of their palates might be ministered to, I believe there are few females who would retain any desire to taste of the blood-polluted banquet. Yet why should the sight of blood be needed, when they know it has been shed, to awaken their sleeping sensibilities ? Under other circumstances they would shudder to be told that the morsel upon their lips, or the garments upon their forms, had been torn by rapine and murder from the hands of their rightful possessors ; and who can assure them that the price of tiie very article now before them, has not been the life of a fellow- creature? The whole system of slavery is replete with barba- rity, and there are numerous instances of the o'erwearied slave having perished with exhaustion amidst his toil, or died beneath the tortures of the mercilessly inflicted lash ; — and how can it be said that the object for which such cruelties are perpetrated, is free from the stain of blood ? 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 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 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 Tea-Table Talk. Helen and Maria. (Sketch) Description An account of the resource " Dear me, Helen, I cannot conceive why you think that taking a lump of sugar in your tea, or eating a piece of cake, or a preserve, can do any harm to the slaves. And when you are in company it must be so disagreeable, and look so singu-lar, to decline eating almost every thing that is offered you ! I think you must almost starve sometimes !" " I have never yet been driven to such an extremity," answered her friend, smiling ; " but I will acknowledge that it is certainly very disagreeable to be obliged so frequently to dis- appoint the kindness of my friends ; neither is it at all pleasant to appear singular in one's notions, which however is not now greatly to be feared, since abstinence from slave articles has become lately quite common. But even if that was not the case, my reasons are, I believe, sufficiently strong to render singularity in this respect entirely proper, and to enable me to bear the imputation of it patiently." " But you have eaten of such things all your life, till lately, and never thought it wrong ; and all the rest of your family make use of them, so that, begging your pardon, cousin Helen, I cannot think it otherwise than very silly for you to make such a fuss about it now." ' ' In telling me that I have made use of slave produce through the whole of my life until lately, you have mentioned an excellent reason, my dear Maria, why I should patiently and cheerfully endure any privations that an abstinence from it may impose upon me now. But because I have done wrong ignorantly, or because those whom 1 most love have not the same views with myself in that respect, shall I continue to sin against my conscience ?" " I suppose you should not, if the use of slave produce really were wrong, or could be done without altogether ; — but other people do not think it wrong, and why should you be more particular ?" *< Shall I tell you why I think it wrong, Maria ?" " Oh ! now, you want to tell me some horrid story about the treatment of the slaves. I do not know how you can bear to think and talk about such things." " How, then, dear Maria, can you wonder that I should re- fuse to assist in creating them. It is indeed very painful to think upon the vast amount of suffering produced by slavery, but not half so painful, cousin, as to assist in producing it. Do not imagine that I think I deserve credit for my abstinence from slave luxuries, or what I suppose you would call necessary articles. I claim none — to partake of them would be to me far the greater punishment. There are times when I almost shudder at the thought, and when I feel as if I could almost as easily endure the taste of human blood, as of the sweetness of the slave-grown cane ! It is wonderful to me how any fe- male, who has even a partial knowledge of the horrors of slavery, can be willing to support such a system, or can receive the least enjoyment from the indulgence in comforts and lux- uries which are purchased by the sacrifice of so many lives. We shudder to think of the immolation of human beings by savage nations, at the altars of their gods ; but when our own gratification is in question, we become careless of the poured- out blood of thousands !" " Now you are severe, Helen ! Do you think I would con- tinue to use slave produce, especially when I could avoid doing so by any means, if I thought all I made use of would occasion the loss of life to any human being ?" " Yet you must acknowledge, Maria, for I believe you are aware of the fact, that, even excluding those who have sunk under the pressure of long continued toil and hardships, the number of the miserable beings who have been deprived of their lives by actual violence is immense. And the cause of slavery, and all its attendant ills, can only be found in the prof- its of its extorted labour." " But, cousin, all the slave produce I should use in the whole course of my life would make no difference in the number of slaves. Abstinence would only punish myself, without any benefit to those you compassionate." " The articles you make use of cannot be produced without some time and labour, be the quantity what it may. Allowing the labour of a slave for six or twelve years to produce all the various slave-grown products which you may use during the course of your life, would not he who was so occupied be in effect your slave, during the time he was thus employed? Do you not receive as much benefit from his oppression as the in- dividual who is his nominal owner, but in fact, for that length of time, only your agent? Nor will the circumstances of this portion of labour, being divided among many persons, create any difference. You must excuse me for considering that for the time that is necessary to produce the articles you consume, you are a slave-holder ; or that you are doing worse, by paying another for the commission of a crime which you would not dare to commit yourself!" " You speak very plainly, Helen ; but I will not be offended, I for I know you feel strongly — nay, I will even acknowledge that I have taken my last cup of tea without sugar, and that it was not so very disagreeable. But I will talk no more upon the subject now, only to say that if I was fairly convinced you were right, I believe I would give up the use at least of slave sugar." 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 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 https://productsoffreelabor.com/files/original/75f0011d7f85256ffa9ad512580642be.jpeg c50918a7bfa535786ea424ef6dc3afc1 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 Slave Produce (Poem) Description An account of the resource Eat ! they are cates for a lady's lip. Rich as the sweets that the wild bees sip ; Mingled viands that nature hath pour'd. From the plenteous stores of her flowing board, Bearing no trace of man's cruelty — save The red life-drops of his human slave. List thee, lady ! and turn aside. With a loathing heart, from the feast of pride ; For, mix'd with the pleasant sweets it bears, Is the hidden curse of scalding tears. Wrung out from woman's bloodshot eye, By the depth of her deadly agony. Look ! they are robes from a foreign loom, Delicate, light, as the rose leaf's bloom ; Stainless and pure in their snowy tint, As the drift unmarked by a footstep's print. Surely such garment should fitting be. For woman's softness and purity. Yet fling them off from thy shrinking limb. For sighs have render'd their brightness dim ; And many a mother's shriek and groan, And many a daughter's burning moan, And many a sob of wild despair. From woman's heart, is lingering there. 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 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 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 To The Ladies' Free Produce Society (Poem) Description An account of the resource These lines were addressed to the Ladies' *' Free Produce Society, of Philadelphia," a short time previous to one of its stated meetings, after the author had removed from the city. Your gathering day ! and I am not, As erst, amid you set ; But even from this distant spot, My thoughts are with you yet. As freshly as in hours forgot, When I was with you met. His blessing on your high career ! Go, press unwearied on. From month to month, from year to year, Till when your task is done. The franchised negro's grateful tear Proclaims your victory won. Oh faint you not, ye gathered band ! Although your way be long, And they who ranged against you stand, Are numberless and strong ; While you but bear a feeble hand, Unused to cope with wrong. Upon your injured brother look. And nerve ye with the sight ! Could you the good, the gentle, brook To wear your days in light. Regardless that by sorrow struck, He pines in rayless night ? Oh surely 'tis a blessed fate, A lot like that ye bear — To bid the crush'd and desolate. Not yield them to despair. For even amidst their low estate. Some hearts their sufferings share. And never your high task forget, Till they are chainless — free ! Alas ! that ye should be so met, And I not with you be ; Yet sometimes when you thus are set, One heart may turn to me. 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 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 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 Books 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 Twenty Reasons for Total Abstinence from Slave-Produce Subject The topic of the resource Book Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Elihu Burritt Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available J. Unwin Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1859 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 Farmer (A Song) Description An account of the resource A farmer's life is the life for me, I own I love it dearly; And every season, full of glee, I take its labors cheerly - To plough or sow, To reap or mow, Or in the barn to thrash, sir, All's one to me, I plainly see 'Twill bring me health and cash, sir. The lawyer leads a harass'd life, Much like that of a hunted otter, And 'tween his own and others' strife, He's always in hot water - For foe or friend, A cause defend, However wrong, must he, sir - In reason's spite, Maintain 'tis right, And dearly earn his fee, sir. The doctor's styled a gentleman, But this I hold but humming; For; like a tavern waiting man, To every call "he's coming" - Now here, now there, Must he repair, Or starve, sir, by denying - Like death himself, Unhappy elf, He lives by others' dying. A farmer's life, then, let me live, Obtaining while I lead it, Enough for self, and some to give To such poor souls as need it. I'll drain and fence, Nor grudge expense, To give my land good dressing - I'll plough and sow, Or drill in row, And hope from heaven a blessing. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource J.J. Barker; Sung at a meeting of the Agricultural Society at New Brunswick Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Colored American Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1839.08.31 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; 10.21.1845 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource FREE PRODUCE The Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Free Produce Society will be held in Philadelphia, on third day, the 21st of 10th mo. All persons interested in the cause of the slave, are earnestly invited to be present. SARAH PUGH, sec. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sarah Pugh Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National Anti-Slavery Standard 6: 18, p. 3 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10.02.1845 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 New York; 8.28.1842 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource UNION FREE PRODUCE SOCIETY. At the annual meeting of the Union Free Produce Society, the 28th of the 8th mo. 1842, the following persons were elected officers for the ensuing year, viz--President, Eli Hambleton--Vice Presidents, Evan Bolton, and Hannah Kent--Recording Secretary, Benjamin Kent--Corresponding Secretary, Alic E. Hambleton--Treasurer, E. Kent--Acting Committee, Wm. Brosius, Daniel Kent, jr. Sarah Hambleton, Rachel Sharpless, and Thomas Hambleton. On motion, the following were appointed delegates to the annual meeting of the American Free Produce Society, in the 10th month next, viz--Elizabeth Kent, Alice E. Hambleton, Eli Hambleton, Thomas Whitson, Mahlon Brosius, and Sarah Hambleton. The following resolution was offered, partially discussed, and referred to next meeting, viz: Resolved, That the same principle which required the Society of Friends to disown their members for the hiring of slaves, would, with equal force, require them to abstain from the produce of the slaves' labor.  JOHN HAMBLETON, Rec. Sec'y. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Hambleton Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National Anti-Slavery Standard 3:17, p. 3 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9.29.1842 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 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 New York; 6.1.1853 (Meeting) Description An account of the resource From the N.Y. Tribune. Free Produce. MEETING OF THE "FREE PRODUCE ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS OF NEW YORK, YEARLY MEETING." To the Editor of the N.Y. Tribune This association wes its existence to a belief entertained by its members in the doctrine: "Who gives the motive makes his brother's sin his own"; and under this belief they feel bound to withold the money patronage that operates as such a powerful motive to the slaveholder to retain his hold upon the slave, regardless of the remonstrances so frequently addressed to him. They believe that it is equally correct to say "the demand is parent of the supply," when applied to the commercial intercourse existing between the slave holder and the consumers of slave-grown productions as in the most familiar illustration of that maxim--"that Cotton growing and Slavery are cause and effect, and that the growth of the latter has been coincident with the consumption of the former." And in these resolutions they are strengthened by a part of the discipline of their own religious body, viz: "Friends are advised to avoid any act by which the right of Slavery is acknowledged." Under these convictions they are seeking for opportunities to supply themselves with such dry-goods and groceries, the produce of free labor, that are generally the result of slave labor. They do not flatter themselves that the few hundred dollars they are employing in this way will do much toward overturning the gigantic institution they desire to see abolished, but if by these means they can enable some others as well as themselves to dissolve the guilty partnership existing between the producrs and consumers of slave-grown productions, their labor will note be in vain. The meeting was held at the Friends meeting-house, Orchard-st. on the evening of the 1st. inst., and attended by Lewis Tappan of this City and Samuel Rhoades of Philadelphia, both of whom addressed the meeting and furnished information of a highly interesting character, confirming the statements, in The Tribune of the 30th. and other papers, relative to the favorable views entertained by Prof. and Mrs. Stowe, of this place, of carrying out the resolution to have "No union with slaveholders." The members of the Association are no friends to coercive measures, but they claim the right of refusing to purchase the mutton of stolen sheep, and of exercising the same privilege when the blood-stained cotton of Slavery is offered to them, and of supplying their wardrobe and their tables with the cotton, sugar, or rice, the result of paid labor. In their humble effort to make their practices agree with their protestations against Slavery, they are cheered by the favorable reception the plan is receiving in England and in many parts of the United States. The annual report of the Association contains some interesting details, which the limits of a newspaper will probably exclude. If the friends of the slave is in earnest in his resolution to have "No union with slaveholders," let him touch not, taste not, handle not the productions of slave labor. H. Miles Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Henry Miles Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Anti-Slavery Bugle 8:39, p. 1 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6.18.1853