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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 28 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 126596 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 71 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 New 18 God 17 United 17 States 16 South 16 North 16 Mr. 13 Slavery 13 John 13 England 12 Union 12 Congress 11 man 10 slave 10 Society 10 Constitution 8 american 8 York 8 Virginia 7 southern 7 William 7 St. 7 Footnote 7 Dr. 7 Carolina 6 slavery 6 christian 6 President 6 Massachusetts 6 Lord 5 Maryland 5 Judge 5 House 5 General 5 Garrison 5 District 5 Boston 5 Bible 4 free 4 Thomas 4 Pennsylvania 4 Mrs. 4 Missouri 4 Convention 4 Brown 3 West 3 Southern 3 Savior 3 Rev. 3 Philadelphia Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 16048 slave 12072 man 8229 slavery 6214 law 5835 time 5682 year 4988 master 4878 state 4717 power 4299 day 3985 servant 3984 people 3920 right 3106 person 3053 hand 2984 property 2921 country 2909 case 2907 child 2647 part 2547 place 2435 friend 2423 life 2419 government 2412 thing 2380 house 2342 word 2301 woman 2263 negro 2245 subject 2198 fact 2186 principle 2112 freedom 2049 way 2041 number 2037 labor 1989 work 1898 liberty 1887 wife 1875 letter 1839 system 1796 other 1791 slaveholder 1786 name 1781 party 1766 member 1709 gentleman 1667 service 1654 question 1648 nothing Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 57841 _ 6738 Mr. 5001 States 3220 Congress 3194 God 2802 South 2424 United 2409 New 2137 Constitution 2117 Virginia 1892 John 1847 North 1735 Slavery 1669 District 1592 State 1579 Carolina 1357 Union 1299 Society 1158 Footnote 1136 England 1131 William 1114 Maryland 1083 c. 1011 . 1003 Lord 991 York 943 James 891 St. 800 Dr. 799 Rev. 791 Georgia 778 President 770 Judge 741 American 732 Mrs. 728 House 728 Henry 723 Philadelphia 720 Thomas 696 Committee 686 Southern 667 General 652 Boston 648 Bible 637 Massachusetts 637 George 622 Court 618 Pennsylvania 604 Anti 601 thou Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; 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"How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 24061 not 6906 so 5566 other 5486 more 4699 great 4632 such 4354 now 4233 only 4138 then 4054 well 3980 own 3929 very 3828 as 3825 most 3797 free 3692 same 3585 up 3189 out 3037 good 2959 much 2934 many 2817 first 2518 never 2442 long 2369 even 2249 thus 2222 also 2102 old 2014 here 1922 little 1921 few 1818 last 1811 public 1746 general 1742 down 1740 still 1699 far 1681 large 1658 ever 1642 human 1624 just 1616 high 1599 there 1590 about 1535 whole 1495 poor 1475 away 1473 too 1471 - 1467 white Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 719 good 667 most 639 least 385 high 302 great 215 bad 119 large 112 strong 109 manif 109 low 108 slight 77 deep 76 early 75 old 68 Most 52 small 44 able 42 noble 41 warm 40 young 36 fine 35 near 33 late 30 mean 30 dear 29 safe 29 rich 27 l 26 full 24 bright 23 heavy 22 wealthy 21 poor 20 wise 20 dark 19 fair 19 clear 18 pure 18 plain 18 mild 18 eld 18 bitter 17 vile 17 gross 17 cheap 16 hard 16 brave 16 bloody 13 happy 12 long Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3158 most 136 well 83 least 3 near 2 ones,--first 2 hard 2 greatest 1 wordsworth,--the 1 soon 1 pourest 1 nicest 1 negroes''--the 1 long 1 latest 1 eldest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 103 _ is _ 50 slavery is not 41 slaves are not 31 _ are _ 31 slave is not 26 congress does not 26 congress has power 26 servants were not 24 _ is not 22 slaves were not 21 _ did _ 21 slavery is _ 20 _ have _ 20 servants were _ 19 _ was _ 18 _ held _ 16 _ were _ 16 states having slaves 15 god is just 15 master was not 14 _ had _ 14 master did not 13 states are _ 12 _ did not 12 _ do _ 12 _ give _ 12 _ hold _ 12 _ holding _ 12 congress having exclusive 12 slave is entirely 12 slavery is sinful 12 slavery was _ 12 slaves are free 12 slaves do not 11 _ do not 11 _ does not 11 _ knew _ 11 negroes are not 11 slavery is inconsistent 11 slavery was legal 11 slavery was not 10 _ make _ 10 _ take _ 10 _ works _ 10 congress did not 10 congress have power 10 congress were willing 10 servants were voluntary 10 slave is _ 10 slavery takes place Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 congress has no power 12 slavery is not only 9 congress had no power 8 congress have no power 8 states having no slaves 6 _ has no power 6 _ has not _ 6 _ is not far 6 case leaving no slaves 6 congress has no more 6 day is not far 6 law makes no criminal 6 slave is no palliation 6 slavery is no longer 6 states have no power 4 _ did not _ 4 _ was no part 4 _ were not _ 4 cases are not parallel 4 congress did not _ 4 congress had no right 4 congress has no constitutional 4 day was not far 4 master did not _ 4 people are not so 4 power was not likely 4 servants were not subject 4 slave is no less 4 slavery is not sinful 4 slaves had no food 4 slaves have no will 4 slaves were not equal 4 states work no longer 4 time is not far 3 men had no rights 3 slavery was not only 2 * is not intemperance 2 _ are not aware 2 _ are not rare 2 _ did not long 2 _ do not barbarously 2 _ have no rights 2 _ have no slavery._"--p 2 _ have not sufficient 2 _ is no longer 2 _ is not _ 2 _ is not farther 2 _ is not necessarily 2 _ makes no provision 2 _ took no notice A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 11271 author = American Anti-Slavery Society title = The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 date = keywords = Abraham; Bible; Canaan; Canaanites; Carolina; Columbia; Congress; Constitution; District; Egypt; Footnote; Gen.; God; Israelites; Jews; Lord; Maryland; Mosaic; Mr.; New; North; Sam; Slavery; South; States; Thou; United; Virginia; american; hebrew; jewish; king; man; servant; stranger summary = If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve, and in the If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve, and in the _slavery is a crime against God and man_, and that it is a great sin to slavery, as it is presented to us, in the laws of the slave States; and relation of master and servant is approved of God. It is the slavery "_Thou shall not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped "_Thou shall not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped servant flees from his master to the Israelites; God speaks, "He shall That this is American slavery, is shown by the laws of slave states. That this is American slavery, is shown by the laws of slave states. That this is American slavery, is shown by the laws of slave states. id = 11272 author = American Anti-Slavery Society title = The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 date = keywords = Antigua; Assembly; August; Barbadoes; Bible; Carolina; Christ; Columbia; Congress; Constitution; District; Dr.; England; Esq; Estate; Footnote; General; God; Government; Governor; House; Indies; Jamaica; John; Kingston; Legislature; Lord; Maryland; Mr.; New; North; Representatives; Rev.; Sabbath; Savior; Sir; Slavery; Society; South; Special; St.; States; Thomas; Union; United; Virginia; Wesleyan; West; american; christian; emancipation; slave summary = _people_ in any state where slavery exists, have the power to abolish [Footnote A: Virginia made slaves real estate by a law passed in 1705. law of Virginia, passed Dec. 17, 1792, a slave brought into the state slave from being emancipated by the _laws_ of the free states. power by the constitution to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the _present_ Congress concede the power to abolish slavery in the District Island,--Free, cheaper than Slave labor,--More work done, and better the subject of slavery, stating that as we had a vast number of slaves power to abolish slavery and the slave-trade in that District; and, power to abolish slavery and the slave-trade in that District; and, claiming for Congress any direct power over slavery in the slave States, with the slavery of the slave states. abolition of slavery in the slave states, or even in the District of id = 11273 author = American Anti-Slavery Society title = The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 date = keywords = Alabama; American; August; Carolina; Charleston; Church; Congress; Connecticut; Constitution; Court; December; Dr.; Esq; George; Georgia; God; House; James; January; John; Judge; July; June; Kentucky; Legislature; Louisiana; Maryland; Massachusetts; Mississippi; Mr.; Mrs.; New; North; Northern; Ohio; Orleans; Pennsylvania; Ranaway; Rev.; Senator; Slavery; Society; South; South Carolina; Southern; States; Tennessee; Thomas; Union; United; Virginia; William; York; slave summary = overseer of slaves in that state, as has been said in the public laws of slave states, and by the testimony of slaveholders and others, men, is shown by the fact, that in all the slave states, we believe years in the south western slave states, says: Illinois, who has spent a number of years in slave states. it, I still continued to live in a slave state, witnessing every day southwestern slave states a number of years, has furnished the slave states, North and South Carolina. [Footnote 20: The following extracts from the laws of slave-states are county, who resided five years in a slave state, and left, disgusted of the slave states has laws providing that the life of no _white_ man the most sacred of human rights, yet the laws of slave states punish advance of all the slave states except Virginia and South Carolina; id = 11274 author = American Anti-Slavery Society title = The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 date = keywords = Christianity; Congress; Constitution; Footnote; God; House; Lord; New; North; Paul; Philemon; Princeton; Professor; Savior; South; States; Stuart; Union; United; american; christian; man; slavery summary = slavery, and the emancipation of the slaves already in the States. States of the Union, constitutes a privileged order of men in the distributing legislative power in a free and in a slave State thus: against slavery, cannot travel through the slave States, but at the man and the law of God; by substituting itself as a rule of right, Constitution of the United States, would not believe that slavery or men at the time when the Constitution of the United States was formed, In the slave States generally, no black man can laws of the slave States, "as invading the sacred rights of citizens Free colored men are converted into slaves not only by law, but also States Constitution, without violating his anti-slavery principles, Constitution, "no person held to service, or labor, in one State, Constitution, "no person held to service, or labor, in one State, In every Slave State there are laws id = 11275 author = American Anti-Slavery Society title = The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus date = keywords = Abraham; Alabama; Antigua; August; Bible; Canaan; Carolina; Charleston; Christ; Christianity; Church; Columbia; Congress; Connecticut; Constitution; Court; December; District; Dr.; Egypt; England; Esq; Footnote; General; George; Georgia; God; Government; Governor; House; Israelites; Jamaica; James; January; Jefferson; Jews; John; Judge; July; June; Kentucky; Legislature; Lord; Louisiana; March; Maryland; Massachusetts; Mississippi; Missouri; Mosaic; Mr.; New; North; Northern; Ohio; Orleans; Paul; Pennsylvania; President; Ranaway; Representatives; Rev.; Sabbath; Savior; Senate; Senator; Slavery; Society; South; South Carolina; Southern; St.; States; Testament; Thomas; Union; United; Virginia; West; William; York; african; american; christian; hebrew; jewish; man; servant; slave summary = white man, _in any way_, practically licensed in all the slave States? slavery, as it is presented to us, in the laws of the slave States; and slave states.) The law of South Carolina thus lays down the principle, That this is American slavery, is shown by the laws of slave states. That this is American slavery, is shown by the laws of slave states. That this is American slavery, is shown by the laws of slave states. all of these [the slave] states." The law of South Carolina says, law of Virginia, passed Dec. 17, 1792, a slave brought into the state the subject of slavery, stating that as we had a vast number of slaves claiming for Congress any direct power over slavery in the slave States, concern" in the subject of slavery in the slave states, than the fact, of the slave states has laws providing that the life of no _white_ man id = 26123 author = Beecher, Catharine Esther title = An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females date = keywords = Abolitionists; Clarkson; Mr.; North; South; Wilberforce; christian; man; measure; slave summary = spirit to take the place of Christian principle; men who have exhibited and pious men, who opposed the measure; and a great deal was said and Another measure of Abolitionists, calculated to awaken evil feelings, with the Abolitionists, as to the sin and evils of slavery, and the duty duty and rectitude, tend to awaken evil feelings, and indispose the mind friendship; all the feelings of respect accorded to good and useful men; great Abolition Society,--to convince every northern man that slavery at the South, against the evils of slavery, and northern men had free success to the cause of the slave, there will be men from the North and man''s character, feelings, and conduct, all depend upon his opinions. every man, that his fellow-men should _believe right_, and one of his communicating to others any evil respecting any of his fellow-men, when Abolitionists are men who come before the public in the character of id = 10986 author = Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell) title = Frederick Douglass A Biography date = keywords = Brown; Douglass; England; Frederick; Garrison; John; Massachusetts; Mr.; New; Rochester; States; York; slavery summary = Escaped from slavery and went to New York City. Attended anti-slavery convention at New Bedford and addressed the _May 7._ Attended meeting of Anti-slavery Society at New York City. _January._ Published _Life and Times of Frederick Douglass_, the third On Colonel Lloyd''s plantation Douglass spent four years of the slave of slavery, Douglass always acknowledged the debt he owed to this good Here, then, in a New England town, Douglass began the life of a been far less bright than Douglass''s had lived and died in slavery. time very fierce, and gave Douglass and his friends the opportunity to Douglass made some telling speeches at Anti-slavery League meetings, produce in slavery such a man as Frederick Douglass must surely be for the incidents of Mr. Douglass''s life in slavery. the American Anti-slavery Society, with which Douglass was identified _Life and Times of Frederick Douglass_. id = 28242 author = Child, Lydia Maria title = An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans date = keywords = Africa; Carolina; Colonization; Domingo; England; Footnote; Georgia; God; Indians; Mr.; New; North; Slavery; Society; South; St.; States; Union; United; Virginia; West; free; law; man; negro; slave summary = the equal rights of man; yet in these two countries slave laws have been [Footnote J: In the new slave States, there are a great many negroes, against a fellow-slave, or free colored man, even in cases affecting _The whole power of the laws is exerted to keep slaves in a state of In most of the slave States the law is silent on this subject; but that In nearly all slaveholding States, a slave emancipated by his master''s Free people of color, like the slaves, are excluded by law from all In Georgia, any slave, or free person of color, is for a similar The children of the slave must be supported by his master; the free man It will, perhaps, be said that the free people of color in the slave in slave states, where the laws afford little or no protection to negro id = 22089 author = Clark, George Washington title = The Liberty Minstrel date = keywords = Birney; Freedom; G.W.C.; God; Liberty; Shall; Slavery; free; like; long; man; music; slave summary = elevated style, shall go forth with its angel voice, like a spirit of slavery, and the blessings of liberty, until every human being shall That we poor souls shall all be free? While hope, to thy heart, like the rain-bow so cheering, That freedom shall slumber, and slavery reign. From thy poor little blind boy, the long weary day! Oh deep was the anguish of the slave mother''s heart, The fetters that bind him, and the slave shall be free. And shall I keep this burning wish to see the slave set free, Rise, free the slave; oh, burst his chains, Of blood-purchased freedom--''tis yielding like slaves. Soon shall the voice of freedom, In the pride of his heart, shall God''s image profane! all hearts resolved--these captives shall be free! And each wish of thy heart shall be felt as a law." Our hearts shall be faithful to liberty still; id = 31328 author = Cromwell, John Wesley title = The Early Negro Convention Movement The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 9 date = keywords = Convention; John; Negro; New; William; York summary = this country all the free colored people in the United States. imperative necessity of holding a convention of the free colored men of The convention was organized by the election of Bishop Allen as President, subsequent convention, for two years later he emigrated to Hayti, where he "A convention of people of color was held in Philadelphia in 1831 of The next year, 1834, the convention met in New York, June 8th, with Henry conventions were great educators, alike of the Negro and the American improve the condition of the colored people of that State. Colored Convention held at the Liberty Street Church, Troy, New York, with what had actually been done by the colored people of the State of New Convention, confined to the free colored people of the North and the Colored Convention in which the men who began the movement in 1830, their id = 35693 author = De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) title = History of American Abolitionism Its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the Southern Confederacy. date = keywords = Carolina; Congress; Constitution; God; House; Missouri; Mr.; New; North; President; Senate; Society; South; Southern; States; Union; United; York summary = abolition of slavery, the prohibition of the removal of slaves from State reports stated that the general government had no power to abolish slavery said State after the admission thereof into the Union, shall be free at principles and designs of the people of the United States in regard to new slavery, but prohibiting it throughout the United States north of latitude the United States for a similar purpose also held a meeting this year, and Here the New York City Anti-Slavery Society was duly organized, having for South; State, county and local anti-slavery societies were organized United States no hereditary slavery; but on and after that day, every nor slave trade at the seat of government of the United States." In January, 1840, a New York State Anti-Slavery Convention was held in countries ceded by Mexico to the United States excluded slavery. fire about the slave States, in which slavery must die." id = 34915 author = Douglass, Frederick title = Abolition Fanaticism in New York Speech of a Runaway Slave from Baltimore, at an Abolition Meeting in New York, Held May 11, 1847 date = keywords = Convention; England; Slavery summary = At the Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Esq., President of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and, upon taking right of appealing to England for aid in overthrowing Slavery in this country, has been called in question, in public meetings and by the America as against England, or against any other country or land. They are men, and the Slave is a man, find moral power in this nation sufficient to overthrow Slavery? overthrow Slavery, and I welcome the aid of England. overwhelming MORAL SENTIMENT against Slavery now flowing into this land. Sir, it is said that, when abroad, I misrepresented my country on this Slavery illegitimately into the World''s Temperance Convention. I heard not a word of the American Slaves, who, if seven prejudices of the English Churches against American Slavery. from Christian America, in England, pouring their leprous pro-slavery The Slave sends no Delegates to the World''s Temperance Convention. id = 51371 author = Fitch, Charles title = Slaveholding Weighed in the Balance of Truth, and Its Comparative Guilt Illustrated date = keywords = Bible; God; man; slave; slavery summary = fellow men, relative to the subject of slavery, it is necessary that we wrongs inflicted on the poor slave, that they deal in unjust severity of men, were but becoming more secure in their claims of property in God''s said this slaveholder, ''who will read the whole Bible to his slaves. victim of slavery, shut out from all true knowledge of God, deprived by life worn out on a slave plantation, toiling to enrich the hard-hearted let the oppressed go free, who claim that _they_ treat their slaves of heaven, and claim that he bears more of God''s image than his slave? the oppressed and broken hearted slave, as for us, or for the man who fear God or love man, resolve before high Heaven, that they will not your fellow men, look at the wrongs of the slave, and weep and toil for men into obedience to the commands of God. Slavery cannot long live id = 39720 author = Herbert, Hilary A. (Hilary Abner) title = The Abolition Crusade and Its Consequences: Four Periods of American History date = keywords = Abolitionists; Congress; Constitution; England; Garrison; John; Lincoln; Mr.; New; North; South; Southerners; States; Union; United; Webster; american; southern summary = an agitation in the North against the existence of slavery in the South, against the existence of slavery in her sister States of the South, and array the North, as a section, against the South, that Southern Whigs to conceive that the Southern States of this Union, whose people in 1830 on both slavery in the South and the Constitution of the United States, of new slave States into the Union. upon the constitutional rights of slave-holders; and Southern people when he made in the United States Senate his anti-slavery "higher law" shall become alike lawful in all the States--old as well as new--North slavery in the South, and he thus stated it, in a letter to his friend, controversy between the North and the South, "State-rights" became the the new claim, that slavery in the South was the concern of the North, Lincoln, South no more responsible for slavery than North, 49; id = 18557 author = Hillis, Newell Dwight title = The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict date = keywords = Beecher; Boston; Brown; Calhoun; Douglas; England; Garrison; God; Grant; Greeley; John; Lee; Lincoln; New; North; Phillips; South; States; Sumner; Union; War; Webster; man; northern; southern summary = entered the earthly scene since the Civil War. Our young men and women, history, setting forth the great men and events of the Anti-Slavery years had now passed since the ship of liberty had come to New England, liberty and free labour in the civilization of the North, and of slave people,--white men as well as black,--and that the slavery question was twelve years later Abraham Lincoln read Daniel Webster''s Seventh of raise up to lead the three million black men out of Southern slavery. pro-slavery men from Missouri crossed the State line, burned the little Men like Douglas and other escaped slaves who attack on Harper''s Ferry was the first blow struck during the Civil War. Other men and women assembled the explosives, but John Brown dropped the Both men were candidates for the Senate--Lincoln, the leader of the new spirit of Abraham Lincoln, that great Southern soldier wrote the last id = 13176 author = Hume, John F. (John Ferguson) title = The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights, 1830-1864 date = keywords = Abolitionists; Anti; Chase; Congress; Douglas; England; Garrison; General; John; Lincoln; Missouri; Mr.; New; President; Slavery; South; St.; States; Union; United; republican summary = party, or helped forward the Anti-Slavery cause, or hurt the "Anti-Slavery men like Giddings, who supported Clay, were doing a Anti-Slavery lines, the Abolitionists, in Mr. Roosevelt''s opinion, Abolitionists for abandoning the old pro-slavery political parties, In several of his addresses before his election to the Presidency, Mr. Lincoln gave utterance to the following language: "A house divided Chase''s great work for the Anti-Slavery cause was in projecting and Anti-Slavery people opposed separate party action. A meeting that was called to organize an Anti-Slavery society in New A good many Anti-Slavery people believed in it for a time and gave it About the same time Mr. Lincoln stated to a party of Southern While a resident of the slave State of Missouri, I twice voted for Mr. Lincoln, which was some evidence of my personal feeling toward him. treatment of the Anti-Slavery people of the border slave States, and id = 3034 author = Macy, Jesse title = The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm date = keywords = Brown; Congress; Constitution; Governor; John; Kansas; Missouri; New; North; President; South; States; Sumner; United; slavery; southern summary = slavery and the slave-trade are instances of war against human nature. original colonies or States adopted slavery by law. great body of active abolitionists were from the slave States or organizing anti-slavery societies north of the Ohio River, Birney at at the annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society held in New both North and South, he was fully persuaded that the new pro-slavery Anti-slavery Society of New York to address the women of that city. The New England Anti-Slavery Society, of which Garrison was the chief of slavery, where by the laws of the said State, territory, or district slavery from any Territory belonging to the United States; that the support of the Fugitive Slave Act. The Free-soil party, with John P. and the arrest of the leaders of the free-state party, Kansas had not United States, "slavery existed nowhere on the national territory" id = 31298 author = Parker, Theodore title = The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence date = keywords = America; Attorney; Boston; Burns; Commissioner; Constitution; Court; Curtis; District; England; Footnote; Gentlemen; God; Grand; Hall; Judge; Jury; Justice; King; Law; Lord; Marshal; Massachusetts; Mr.; New; Parliament; People; Slavery; St.; States; United summary = W. Greenough, brother-in-law of Judge Curtis, was one of the Jury. due process of law, with no judge, no jury, no judicial officer. appoint men for judges and other officers of the court, who know no Thus, Gentlemen of the Jury, is it that judges who know no law but the Boston a fugitive slave bill court, eager to kidnap men and so gain Besides, after the Jury declares a man guilty, the Judge has the power King-power makes a wicked law, the Judge, who is himself made by that great concourse of people attending the court on the "law-days;" the Grand-Jury, in Circuit Court of United States, at Boston, taken charged,--for otherwise the Jury must judge of the Purpose of Law, "the Jury judged as to facts, law, and justice of the whole, and Justice Parker who said it was not for the jury to judge whether a law id = 15263 author = Still, William title = The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. date = keywords = Ann; Baltimore; Boston; Brown; Canada; Carolina; Charles; Church; Committee; DEAR; Daniel; Delaware; Dr.; Elizabeth; Garrett; George; God; Harriet; Henry; Isaac; James; Jane; John; Johnson; Joseph; Lewis; Maryland; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Norfolk; North; Pennsylvania; Peter; Philadelphia; Rail; Richmond; Road; Robert; Samuel; Slavery; Smith; Society; South; State; Thomas; Underground; United; Vigilance; Virginia; Washington; William; York; anti; arrival; friend; illustration; letter; slave summary = William is twenty-five years of age, unmistakably colored, good-looking, His good friend returned to Baltimore the same day the box man started unmolested, reached the boat safely, and was secreted in a box by Wm. Bagnal, a clever young man who sincerely sympathized with the slave, Henry is of a brown skin, a good-looking young man, only nineteen years years ago his wife was "sold away to Georgia" by her young master; since Charles Henry was a good-looking young man, only twenty years of age, James was a likely-looking young man of twenty years of age, dark, tall, colored man, a white woman and a child, ten years old. slave life William said: "I was sold four times; twice I was separated James left his poor wife, and three children, slaves perhaps for life. At this time Henry was about twenty-four years of age, but a man of more id = 11454 author = Sturge, Joseph title = A Visit to the United States in 1841 date = keywords = Anti; Boston; Britain; Committee; Convention; England; Footnote; Friends; God; Great; John; London; Meeting; Mr.; New; North; Philadelphia; President; Slavery; Society; States; Tyson; United; Yearly; York; american; british; christian summary = Appendix A: ANTI-SLAVERY EPISTLE OF "FRIENDS" IN GREAT BRITAIN. commerce of the Slave States had imbued them with pro-slavery views and friends of the anti-slavery cause, and in receiving calls at our hotel. Foreign Anti-slavery Society, is another remarkable man, clear and sound visits from a large number of the friends of the anti-slavery cause, and the designation of the "American Anti-Slavery Society." The State of the second day, a meeting of the Female Anti-Slavery Society was held of the Executive Committee of the State Anti-Slavery Society, be present at an anti-slavery meeting of the State Society, to which I anti-slavery cause in Great Britain from the time of the old right to state, that the memorial refers to slavery and the slave-trade great loss at the time by his fellow-laborers in the anti-slavery cause, to the anti-slavery cause, and the Society of Friends itself, I id = 12052 author = Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon title = Half a Century date = keywords = CHAPTER; Campbell; Cloud; Dr.; Fredericksburg; Gen.; God; Indians; Judge; Lowrie; Minnesota; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Pennsylvania; Pittsburg; President; Riddle; St.; State; Tom; Visiter; Washington; good; man; southern; woman; work summary = He came after dark to bid me good-bye, left love for mother and trial-morning, prayed as soon as my eyes were open, read a chapter, my room to continue my labor; but mother soon came and said: Everything went smoothly for ten days, when my husband came to our room, What I said I do not know, but the old man interrupted me with: Our "Spirit" did not come that week; but soon my husband came to my room said to this man "go," and he went, to that "come," and he came, and to like a white man, dined with State officers in St. Paul, went to church second day came, with a long face, and said: with the man I had come to visit, and he said, in a whisper: Surgeon-General--saw the man who held the lives of my patients in his days among my men, and said: id = 39568 author = Tuckerman, Bayard title = William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery date = keywords = American; Antislavery; Congress; Constitution; District; Jay; John; Judge; Mr.; New; North; Slave; Society; South; States; Union; United; William; York; southern summary = constitutional right of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of and scattered State Bible societies, Jay published a pamphlet in 1816 was formed in New York in 1785 with John Jay as president and Alexander ANTISLAVERY SOCIETIES.--ANTI-ABOLITION RIOTS.--JAY PUBLISHES HIS ANTISLAVERY SOCIETIES.--ANTI-ABOLITION RIOTS.--JAY PUBLISHES HIS Elizur Wright, Jr., all officers of the New York Antislavery Society. of the New York postmaster in the United States courts, but Judge Jay Utica on October 21, 1835, to form a New York State Antislavery Society. In 1836 Judge Jay resigned the presidency of the New York State AMERICAN ANTISLAVERY SOCIETY.--JUDGE JAY RESIGNS HIS MEMBERSHIP, AMERICAN ANTISLAVERY SOCIETY.--JUDGE JAY RESIGNS HIS MEMBERSHIP, JUDGE JAY CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THE ANTISLAVERY CAUSE BY HIS ADVICE JUDGE JAY CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THE ANTISLAVERY CAUSE BY HIS ADVICE elected president of New York State Antislavery Society, 77; presented by John Jay to the New York Historical Society, for id = 9595 author = Whittier, John Greenleaf title = The Conflict with Slavery Part 1 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII date = keywords = Colonization; Congress; England; Garrison; General; God; Massachusetts; New; North; Society; South; States; Union; United; Virginia; american; free; man; right; slave; slavery; southern summary = Bound by the United States constitution to protect the slave-holder in slavery: and the number of slaves has increased more than half a million, system of slavery, to remove the fears of the slave-holder, and increase fundamental truth of human liberty, that man cannot hold property in his The slave-holding states are not free. Let, then, the slave-holding states consult their present interest by And when the voice of all the non-slave-holding states shall be heard on overthrow of a great national evil like that of slavery can only be South, between the slave-holder and the free laborer. slave states, subjecting free colored citizens of New England and of slavery in some of the states renders the demand for free laborers their slaves and to their brethren of the free states. claims to human beings as slaves, and employ them as free laborers, under obligations resting upon the people of the free states to remove slavery id = 9599 author = Whittier, John Greenleaf title = The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII, Complete The Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life, and Criticism date = keywords = Boston; Christianity; Congress; Divine; Dr.; England; Father; Friends; General; God; John; Lord; Massachusetts; Meeting; New; North; Philadelphia; Society; South; St.; States; Thee; Thou; Union; United; Virginia; William; Woolman; Yearly; american; christian; great; life; like; slave; slavery; southern summary = fundamental truth of human liberty, that man cannot hold property in his Let, then, the slave-holding states consult their present interest by And when the voice of all the non-slave-holding states shall be heard on overthrow of a great national evil like that of slavery can only be slave states, subjecting free colored citizens of New England and the slave-holding portions of our republic shall no longer sit, like the "If any slave shall suffer in his life, limbs, or members, when no white of slavery in some of the states renders the demand for free laborers the citizens of Augusta County, bearing the signatures of many slaveholders, placed the evils of slavery in a strong light before the claims to human beings as slaves, and employ them as free laborers, under voice of God condemns it in the deep places of the human heart. slave, and now I shall die a free man!" id = 10448 author = nan title = The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings date = keywords = AIR; God; Hurra; Slavery; come; free summary = To all true friends of the Slave, the Anti-Slavery Harp is While hope, to thy heart, like the rain-bow so cheering, From thy poor little blind boy, the long weary day! Once more let thy poor little blind one be pressed; Yes, trembling slaves in freedom''s land, Pray on, pray on, all hearts resolved--these captives shall be free. Pray on, pray on, all hearts resolved--these captives shall be free. Toil on, toil on, all hearts resolved--these captives shall be free. all hearts resolved--these captives shall be free! Guided on by thy light, freedom''s star. Let his lungs breathe our free northern air! Who shall breathe in its pure mountain air. O, deep was the anguish of the slave mother''s heart, And each wish of thy heart shall be felt as a law." That we poor souls shall all be free? The fettered slave shall yet be free. The fettered slave shall yet be free. id = 19949 author = nan title = Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) date = keywords = Albert; America; Bible; Captain; Christ; Christian; Clarkson; Dr.; England; Fort; Frank; God; Gracelius; Jesus; Mary; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Slavery; Ward; illustration; man summary = The Fugitive Slave Act. Few laws have ever been passed better calculated than this to harden measure of its government, will receive a blessing from God. Let America act on her own avowed principles, that every man is born Mary at first trembled, but soon composed herself with trust in God. Albert, taking her arm into his, led her to where Captain Templeton "Ah!" said Mr. Gracelius, "that will depend upon the grace of God. Farewell, young man, and may the Lord convert your soul and give us a natural right, that I said to myself I cannot honor the true God by "Mary, like yourself, I now feel," said Albert, "that a Christian must 4. Anti-slavery men seek to set slaves against their masters, at the into the soul, and acts in the life of man, we know that sin, in its and let us not falter until in God''s own good time the word shall be id = 30772 author = nan title = Minutes of the Proceedings of the Second Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States Assembled at Philadelphia, on the seventh day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and continued, by adjournments, until the fourteenth day of the same month, inclusive date = keywords = Convention; United; William summary = Societies in the United States, was then read; after which, several appointed to represent that Society in this Convention. Abolition Societies in the United States, recommending to them, to send Convention, complete copies of the laws of their several states, memorials and addresses to the Congress of the United States, and the Legislatures of individual states,--presented the following report, United States to any foreign place or country._ within any port or place of the said United States, nor or citizens of the United States shall, contrary to the true presented, accompanied with a memorial from the Abolition Society of as this Convention have resolved to recommend to the said Societies. Congress of the United States, for prohibiting the traffic in slaves, importation of slaves into the United States. Societies, formed in different parts of the United States, Societies, formed in different parts of the United States, Societies in the United States.