9 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 Association Description An account of the resource PHILADELPHIA, 10 mo. 2, 1840 ESTEEMED FRIEND, I have not unfrequently, in my capacity as corresponding Secretary of the American Free Produce Association, and also as an individual sympathising with thee and and the great and glorious struggle for human fredom in which we are mutually engaged, felt disposed to address thee; and as the approaching anniversary of our Free Produce Society is so near at hand, I have felt satisfied to remain quiet no longer, without at least inviting thee to attend our meeting. My dear friend, I have been greatly at a loss to see how, consistently with thy general character, thee could remain so silent upon the question of abstinence. I should regret to think that one whose whole soul was so deeply interested in the anti-slavery cause should have so far passed by the consideration of this branch of the subject, as to b ignorant of its important bearing on the main question, and should as deeply regret a failure to plainly and boldly avow the conviction if once made. In the name of millions of enslaved fellow-beings--in the name of our glorious cause of christianity and of consistency--I urge upon thy mind the serious enquiry--'art thou performing thy duty in this branch of the anti-slavery reform?' I just observe, in the accounts given in some of the European journals which have been kindly sent me, that when there, thee was able to see that if the professed friends of the slave would 'touch not, taste not, handle not the unclean thing,' their abstinence would produce a powerful effect upon the system--that, if Britain should refuse to receive slave produce, it would strike a death-blow to the monster. Now, from this I should draw the general inference, that those who partake of slave produce are guilty, as a mass, of upholding the unrighteous system. I also infer that individuals composing a community, or mass of people, partake of the guilt pertaining to the crimes which the mass may commit while they are leagued with them in the perpetration. Hence, the comparative feebleness of the influence of the abstinence of one person does not lesson the guilt of partaking. This subject might be prolonged far beyond the limits of this sheet, if my time, and thy patience, but I feel it to be unnecessary. 'A word to the wise is sufficient.' Our meeting will be held in this city on the 20th instant. I earnestly invite thy attendance, and extend the invitation to every friend of the cause of honest inquirer--independent of party, sect, color, sex, or condition. I feel a confidence that thy mind is so far established upon the 'general equality of the human family,' as to regard none the less the suggestions which I have made on account of the humble source from which they emanate. I am thy sincere friend in the cause of the oppressed, DANIEL S. MILLER JR. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Daniel S. Miller Jr., William Lloyd Garrison Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Liberator 10:42, p. 167 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10.16.1840 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 (Article) Subject The topic of the resource Article suggests that those seeking out free produce items look to Africa. Description An account of the resource There is an "American Free Produce Association" at Philadelphia, whose object it is to promote the use of the produce of free labor to the exclusion of that of slaves. Their cotton has been obtained chiefly from North Carolina, and if we guess correctly from persons who liberated their slaves some years since and sent them to Liberia. The last report suggests various places for obtaining cotton and sugar; but among them all, Africa does not seem to have been thought of. It is well known that Africa produces cotton, rice, sugar, &c., and the encouragement of free labor there would seem to be a beautiful way to promote the objects of the Association. The rivalry would be that colored people with one another,--the free against the enslaved; or rather, that of the free against the enslavers of their brethren. A small crop of free-labor African sugar, it seems, is about to come into market:-- African Sugar. Capt. Taylor of the brig Waverly, recently arrived from the western coast of Africa, informs that when in Liberia he found a fine crop of sugarcane growing on the farm under tee direction of Governor Buchanan. The crop was expected to yield ten hogshead of sugar. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Vermont Chronicle 16:5, p. 19 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2.3.1841 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Free Produce (Article) Description An account of the resource FREE PRODUCE.--The editor of the Standard thinks he could discern "a marked change" in the opinions of the Pennsylvania Abolitionists, on the subject of Free Produce, as manifested at our annual meeting. It seemed to him that their faith was not so strong as formerly, and that their conviction of the duty of abstinence from slave-grown products, had dwindled into a mere preference for the product of free labor where it could b conveniently obtained. We think that he has underrated the faith and the zeal of the Pennsylvania Abolitionists, in this matter, and are half inclined to suspect that his "wish was father to his thought." We readily, though sorrowfully, acknowledge that the principle in question is not so generally received and so faithfully applied, as its importance demands, but in justice to a large body of Pennsylvania Abolitionists, we must say that a strong testimony has, in this respect, been borne by them, against American Slavery, and that they are actively exerting themselves to enlist the consciences and hearts of the friends of the slave generally, in this department of our w[?]k. We trust that they will be increasingly diligent and hopeful. We are sure that such zeal and earnestness and theirs will never be satisfied with "a growing conviction that" it is "very well to avoid the produce" of the slave's extorted and unrequited toil, "when it can be done conveniently;" when, without much trouble, one can feed himself with sugar, and clothe himself with cotton, which is not moistened with the tears and stained with the blood of the slave. As to the discussion of this subject at the recent meeting, different opinions were of course entertained by the numerous auditors. We believe that the friends of Free Produce generally felt that the cause had not suffered loss by it, and that the attempt to maintain the rightfulness of such a support of Slavery as is afforded by the purchase of its fruits, proved unsuceessful. We hope that they will show the strength and vigor of their [?] by their works.  We copy the above from the Pennsylvania Freeman, cheerfully submitting to be corrected if we are in the wrong. The impression we received, however, came from the expressed doubts of, at least, two somewhat prominent individuals who had hitherto been advocates of the Free Produce doctrine, but who are now questioning whether that doctrine could be insisted on as a principle. We thought we saw and felt that there was more doubt in the assembly than we had ever before remarked a similar meetings in Pennsylvania, as to the correctness of the position of our free-produce friends. It seemed to us that many seemed to feel the weight of the objection--that that which it was acknowledged could not be carried out, could not be insisted on as a principle; and that the objction was not answered by the reply, that if carried out we must cease to exist. For if a principle, and therefore a duty, we should act in obedience to it though at the expense of life. "It is necessary to live," said a suitor for royal bounty to Cardinal Richilieu. "I do not see the necessity," replied the Cardinal. It is not necessary to live, but it is necessary to do right. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National Anti-Slavery Standard 10:25, p. 98 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11.15.1849 https://productsoffreelabor.com/files/original/1483756e17c6301a875f997433ba9509.jpeg 0df67170ab1685f7175704f2eb632d6e 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 The Anti-Slavery Alphabet Description An account of the resource A popular alphabet book published in 1846 to be sold at Anti-Slavery Fair organized by the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society (PFASS). Each illustrated letter corresponds to an aspect of abolition or a critique of slavery, promoting both literacy and an abolitionist education among children. The book tells its young readers that they have a part to play in the struggle as well. The opening verses, titled "To Our Little Readers" states, "You are very young, 'tis true,/But there's much that you can do./Even you can plead with men'That they buy not slaves again,/[....]And you can refuse to take/Candy, sweetmeat, pie or cake,/Saying 'no'--unless 'tis free--/'The slave shall not work for me.'" Several of these letters discuss topics such as the complicit merchant (M is the Merchant of the north,/Who buys what slaves produce--/So they are stolen, whippd and worked,/For his, and for our use), the boycott of sugar (S is the Sugar, that the slave/Is toiling hard to make,/To put into your pie and tea,/Your candy, and your cake.) and the violence of the cotton industry (C is the Cotton-field). Full text available <a href="http://online.fliphtml5.com/xohe/qlfg/#p=4">here</a>. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hannah and Mary Townsend Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Printed for the Anti-Slavery Fair by Merrihew & Thompson, Printers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1846 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 Epigram (Poem) Description An account of the resource To purify their wine, some people bleed A lamb into the barrel, and succeed; No nostrum, planters say, is half so good To make fine sugar, as a negro's blood. Now lambs and negroes both are harmless things, And hence perhaps this wondrous virtue springs, 'Tis in the blood of innocence alone-- Good cause why planters never try thir own. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource William Cowper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Slave's Friend: 8, p. 20 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1.1.1836 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 The Thankful Child Subject The topic of the resource A poem from the children's abolitionist periodical The Slave's Friend where the child promises to abstain from "sugar or other things that the slaves are compelled to grow." Description An account of the resource I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in my early days A happy free-born child. I was not born a little slave To labor in the sun, And wish that I were in the grave, And all my labor done. My God, I thank thee, who hath planned A better lot for me, And placed me in this happy land, Where I may hear of Thee. Now I will show that I am thankful. I will pity the poor slave. I will pray for him. I will save my money to give to the Anti-Slavery Society. I'll try not to eat any sugar or other things that the slaves are compelled to grow. When I see little colored children, I will be kind to them. I will consider them as good as others who behave well. God makes no difference, and I will make none. I will try to feel towards the colored people just as God feels towards them. This will be right. My conscience tells me so. I'll do it. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Slave's Friend 1, p. 12 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1.1.1836 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 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 Gentle Words (Poem) Description An account of the resource We like the following, by C.D. STEWART. Such poems, we believe, exert a beneficial influence. "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold on beds of silver." A young rose in the summer time Is beautiful to me, And glorious the many stars That glimmer on the sea; But gentle words, and loving hearts, And hands to clasp my own, Are better than the brightest flowers, Or stars that ever shone! The sun may warm the grass to life, The dew the drooping flower, And eyes grow bright and watch the light Of autumn's opening hour-- But words that breathe of tenderness, And smiles we know are true, Are warmer than the summer time, And brighter than the dew. It is not much the world can give, With all its subtle art, And gold or gems are not the things To satisfy the heart. But O, if those who cluster round The altar and the hearth, Have gentle words and loving smiles, How beautiful is earth! Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.D. Stewart Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Non-Slaveholder 2:1, p. 23 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1.1.1847 https://productsoffreelabor.com/files/original/5197c622c75229874aa9f35273df1b96.jpg 672af5ef87467373bbf7a33522f0bde8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Advertisements Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Free Produce Store (Advertisement) Description An account of the resource The Subscriber has made an arrangement with Joel Fisher for the purchase of his stock of Free Goods, with the occupation of the store now in his tenancy at the north west corner of Fifth and Cherry streets, to go into operation on the first of next month. He proposes to conduct the business through an agent, and expects to keep constantly for sale, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, as full an assortment of Free dry goods and groceries as practicable, increasing the present variety as new facilities are afforded. To enable him to place the goods at the lowest rates, it will be necessary for him to make his sales for cash,--persons giving him their orders are requested to bear this in view. To those who have heretofore patronized this establishment, to his friends, and to the friends generally of the Free Produce cause, he looks with great confidence for support in the responsible undertaking he is about to assume. Orders addressed to him at the above place, or at Box 777, Philadelphia Post Office, will have immediate attention, and goods will be delivered in any part of the city, or forwarded to the country, according to direction. GEORGE W. TAYLOR Philadelphia, 1st mo. 1st, 1847 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Non-Slaveholder 2:1, p. 24 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1.1.1847 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 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 Store for the Sale of Free Produce Subject The topic of the resource Article on the recent promotion of George W. Taylor's store and encouragement toward free produce. Description An account of the resource STORE FOR THE SALE OF FRE PRODUCE.--The senior Editors of this paper ask the attention of its readers to the advertisement of our colleague, George W. Taylor, on our last page. The increasing desire throughout many sections of our country to procure the necessaries and conveniences of life, free from the labours of slaves; and a religious concern, on his part, to promote the good work by every means in his power, have induced him to enter into this business. He will most scrupulously investigate the sources of his supplies, and, in this and other respects, will be assisted by the operations of the Free Produce Association of Friends. Many applications have been received for a supply of groceries and cotton goods to be sold on commission. Without entering into details, we may state that this plan is quite impracticable. If several individuals in a neighbourhood would join in raising such an amount of money as may be convenient to them, they could receive its value in goods at wholesale prices, and divide them in the proportions of the several sums contributed. Many persons who do not profess a decided religious scruple against using slave produce, yet declare their preference for the productions of free labour, and even a willingness to pay more, if necessary, for them. We hope that such as these will avail themselves of the opportunity now afforded, to gratify their preference. Faithfulness to faint glimmerings may lead to larger openings--a proper use of feeble rays of light may prepare the spiritual eye for greater clearness and strength of vision--and those who have seen "men as trees, walking," may eventually see "every man clearly." To another class, who, under various outward disadvantages and difficulties, feel religiously restrained from contributing their support to slavery, we would extend the encouragement which we have gratefully received ourselves in a recent letter from our dear friend Thomas Willis, of Long Island. In reference to a discouraging circumstance, he says: "It has no effect to abate my concern on this subject, [the disuse of slave produce] but rather stimulates to greater faithfulness on my part. I sincerely hope that the apathy, so prevalent in the Society, relative to this branch of our testimony against injustice and cruelty, may in no wise abate the Christian concern and perseverance of those who have associated together for the promotion of this work of righteousness; for such I truly esteem it. And it does appear to me that if our Society have any real testimony to bear against slavery and the slave-trade, the time has arrived that we are called upon to make it manifest--not in word only--but in deed and in truth; so that our example may be consistent with our profession and set the seal thereunto." Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Non-Slaveholder 2:2, p. 41 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1.2.1847