An Address to the Colored People of the United States
Fellow Countrymen: Under a solemn sense of duty, inspired by our relation to you as fellow sufferers under the multiplied and grievous wrongs to which we as a people are […]
What Are the Colored People Doing for Themselves?
The present is a time when every colored man in the land should bring this important question home to his own heart. It is not enough to know that white […]
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Chapter VII
Source: Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself (Boston: the Anti-Slavery Office, 1845). https://www.google.com/books/edition/Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Frederick_Dougl/ds08RYrDBPIC?hl=en&gbpv=0. I lived in Master Hugh’s family about seven years. During this […]
Blessings of Liberty and Education
Ladies, Gentlemen ad Friends: As I am a stranger among you and a sojourner, you will, I hope, allow me a word about myself, by way ofintroduction. I want to […]
American Slavery
I like radical measures, whether adopted by Abolitionists or slaveholders. I do not know but I like them better when adopted by the latter. Hence I look with pleasure upon […]
The Address of Southern Delegates in Congress to their Constituents; or, the address of John C. Calhoun and Forty Other Thieves
That ponderous cloud of dismal terror which for a time overhung the national capital, darkening the blue sky of “our glorious union,” and from which the simple people have only […]
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Chapter VI
Source: Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself (Boston: the Anti-Slavery Office, 1845). https://www.google.com/books/edition/Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Frederick_Dougl/ds08RYrDBPIC?hl=en&gbpv=0. My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I […]
The Future of the Colored Race
It is quite impossible, at this early date, to say with any decided emphasis what the future of the colored people will be. Speculations of that kind, thus far, have […]
Men of Color, To Arms!
“MEN OF COLOR, TO ARMS!” When first the rebel cannon shattered the walls of Sumter and drove away its starving garrison, I predicted that the war then and there inaugurated […]
Condition of the Country
Our remarks upon the present condition of the country and upon the prospects of the anti-slavery cause must be very brief in our present number, both for want of time […]