Anti-Slavery Meeting
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Title
Anti-Slavery Meeting
Description
The Rev.S.R. Ward delivered an interesting Anti-Slavery Lecture at the Castle Inn, Woodford, Essex, on Friday the 21st July ult., Stephen Bourne, Esq., late Stipendiary Magistrate in Jamaica and British Guiana, presiding. The meeting was numerously and respectably attended, and much sympathy was excited by the appeals of Mr. Ward. The object of the meeting was to promote the formation of a local Anti-Slavery Society, to co-operate with the Ladies' Free-labour Association at Walthamstow, the members of which are working single-handed, and would be glad of a little assistance from the gentlemen of the immediate neighbourhood.
Mr. Ward gave especial prominence to the fact that those who consume slave-labour produce are parties thus far to keeping up Slavery: and enjoined those who professed anti-slavery sentiments to act consistently, by abstaining, as far as lies in their power, from consuming articles the product of slave-labour. He also showed how, by developing the resources of our East and West-India Colonies, and by promoting the cultivation of cotton there, in Africa, Australia and elsewhere, and thus augmenting the supply of free-labour staples, slave-holders would eventually be thrust out of the markets of the world by the more sucessful enterprises of free-labour.
Mr. Chamerovizow, Secretary of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society also addressed the meeting. He pointed out in what manner the system of slavery reacted on the people of this country, as, to wit, in the case of the law relating to coloured seamen, and indicated the course which the American church has observed in abstaining from taking action against slaveholders. He also referred to the various instrumentalities that might be employed, to break down the system, amongst which, he stated that the religious bodies in this country might become the most powerful, by remonstrating with their American co-religionists who either uphold slave-holding or do not speak against it, and by refusing to receive such into church-fellowship. This course, he observed, would awaken a sentiment in the American churches against Slavery, which it was to be regretted does not exist.
Mr. Ward gave especial prominence to the fact that those who consume slave-labour produce are parties thus far to keeping up Slavery: and enjoined those who professed anti-slavery sentiments to act consistently, by abstaining, as far as lies in their power, from consuming articles the product of slave-labour. He also showed how, by developing the resources of our East and West-India Colonies, and by promoting the cultivation of cotton there, in Africa, Australia and elsewhere, and thus augmenting the supply of free-labour staples, slave-holders would eventually be thrust out of the markets of the world by the more sucessful enterprises of free-labour.
Mr. Chamerovizow, Secretary of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society also addressed the meeting. He pointed out in what manner the system of slavery reacted on the people of this country, as, to wit, in the case of the law relating to coloured seamen, and indicated the course which the American church has observed in abstaining from taking action against slaveholders. He also referred to the various instrumentalities that might be employed, to break down the system, amongst which, he stated that the religious bodies in this country might become the most powerful, by remonstrating with their American co-religionists who either uphold slave-holding or do not speak against it, and by refusing to receive such into church-fellowship. This course, he observed, would awaken a sentiment in the American churches against Slavery, which it was to be regretted does not exist.
Source
Provincial Freeman
Date
9.23.1854
Collection
Citation
“Anti-Slavery Meeting,” No Stain of Tears and Blood, accessed October 22, 2026, https://productsoffreelabor.com/items/show/78.
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