Nineteenth-Century African American Speeches in Britain and Ireland
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Nineteenth-Century African American Speeches in Britain and Ireland
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"Nineteenth-Century African American Speeches in Britain and Ireland". Ed. Celeste-Marie Bernier and Hannah-Rose Murray. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2024.
Table of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Authors’ Note
● Ernest J. Quarles / Foreword (xxii-xxix)
● Celeste-Marie Bernier and Hannah-Rose Murray / Introduction (1-59)
● Celeste-Marie Bernier and Hannah-Rose Murray / Bibliography of Digital and Print Resources (60-70)
Benjamin William Brown (1841–date unknown) [items #1, #2]
Biography and Further Reading (71-72)
● Anon. / "An Ex-Slave at Tufnell-Park" ("The Islington Gazette", London, England, 22 August 1888, p.3) (73-78)
● Anon. / "Scenes in Slave-Land" ("Gravesend and Dartford Reporter", Gravesend, Kent, England, 25 January 1890, p.4) (79-81)
Hallie Quinn Brown (c. 1850–1949) [items #3, #4, #5]
Biography and Further Reading (82-85)
● Anon. / "The Education of Freed Slaves" ("The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent", Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, 27 February 1895, p.6) (86-88)
● Anon. / "The American Negro. His Aspirations and Grievances" ("The Edinburgh Evening News", Edinburgh, Scotland, 14 January 1896, p.4) (89-93)
● Anon. / "Miss Hallie Q. Brown at Rhyl" ("Rhyl Record and Advertiser", Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales, 10 December 1898, p.8) (94-96)
John Brown (c. 1818–1876) [item #6]
Biography and Further Reading (97-99)
● Anon. / "Anti Slavery Lecture" ("Bristol Times", Bristol, England, 25 September 1852, p.3) (100-02)
William Wells Brown (c. 1814–1884) [items #7, #8, #9, #10]
Biography and Further Reading (103-05)
● Anon. / "William Wells Brown" ("North and South Shields Gazette", North Shields, England, 4 January 1850, p.5) (106-07)
● Anon. / "Slavery in America" ("The Leeds Mercury", Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 19 January 1850, p.7) (108-17)
● Anon. / "Slavery in the United States" ("Carlisle Journal", Carlisle, England, 14 March 1851, p.2) (118-19)
● Anon. / "Three Fugitive Slaves in Nottingham" ("Nottingham Review", Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, 4 April 1851, p.3) (120-21)
Thomas Morris Chester (1834–1892) [items #11, #12]
Biography and Further Reading (122-24)
● Anon. / "Condition of the Negro" ("The Manchester Weekly Times", Manchester, England, 23 January 1864, p.3) (125-28)
● Anon. / "Captain Chester on the American War" ("The Ashton Weekly Reporter and Stalybridge and Dukinfield Chronicle", Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, 30 January 1864, p.3) (129-36)
Nelson Countee (c. 1833/1834–1886) [item #13]
Biography and Further Reading (137-38)
● Anon. / "Lecture by a Runaway Slave" ("Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle", Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, 19 July 1876, p.4) (139)
Ellen Craft (1826–1891) and William Craft (1824–1900) [items #14, #15, #16, #17]
Biography and Further Reading (140-43)
● Anon. / "Anti-Slavery Meeting in Newcastle" ("Newcastle Guardian", Newcastle, England, 15 March 1851, p.4) (144-48)
● Anon. / "Three Fugitive Slaves in Nottingham" ("Nottingham Review", Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, 4 April 1851, p.3) (149-52)
● Anon. / "Freedom in the United States" ("Bucks Herald, Uxbridge Advertiser, Windsor and Eton Journal", 26 November 1859, p.5) (153-54)
● Anon. / "Running One Thousand Miles for Freedom" ("East London Observer", 22 March 1862, p.2) (155-56)
Alexander Crummell (1819–1898) [item #18]
Biography and Further Reading (157-59)
● Anon. / "African Episcopal Church" ("The Preston Chronicle", Preston, Lancashire, England, 15 September 1849, p.5) (160-61)
William Howard Day (1825–1900) [item #19]
Biography and Further Reading (162-64)
● Anon. / "The Fugitive Slaves in Canada" ("The Hull Packet and East Riding Times", Hull, Yorkshire, England, 10 May 1861, p.6) (165-68)
Isaac Perry Dickerson (c. 1850/52–1900) [item #20]
Biography and Further Reading (169-70)
● Anon. / "Successful Temperance Mission" ("The Wiltshire Times", Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 20 November 1897, p.5) (171-72)
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) [items #21, #22, #23]
Biography and Further Reading [173-75]
● Anon. / "Mr. Frederick Douglas’s Lectures on American Slavery" ("Carlisle Journal", Carlisle, Cumbria, England, 22 August 1846, p.4) (176-81)
● Anon. / "Mr. Douglass" (Leeds Young Men’s Antislavery Society, "Leeds Mercury", Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 24 December 1859, p.7) (182-86)
● Anon. / "A Distinguished Coloured Visitor" ("Bridport News", Bridport, Dorset, England, 22 October 1886, p.1) (187-89)
Washington Duff (1829–date unknown) [item #24]
Biography and Further Reading (190-91)
● Anon. / "Slavery" ("The Cambridge Independent Press", Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, 28 January 1865, p.7) (192-93)
Francis Fedric (c. 1810–c.1870) [items #25, #26]
Biography and Further Reading (194-95)
● Anon. / "Lecture on American Slavery" ("The West Middlesex Advertiser and Family Journal", London, England, 8 March 1862, p.2) (196-97)
● Anon. / "The Horrors of Slavery" ("The West Middlesex Advertiser and Family Journal", London, England, 17 May 1862, p.3) (198-99)
Henry Highland Garnet (1815–1882) [items #27, #28]
Biography and Further Reading (200-04)
● Anon. / "Anti-Slavery and Free Labour" ("Worcestershire Chronicle", Worcester, Worcestershire, England, 26 March 1851, p.8) (205-06)
● Anon. / "American Slavery" ("The Hereford Times", Hereford, Herefordshire, England, 3 May 1851, p.7) (207-13)
Jacob D. Green (1813–unknown) [items #29, #30]
Biography and Further Reading (214-15)
● Anon. / "The American War and Slavery" ("The Bradford Review", Bradford, England, 12 September 1863, p.5) (216-18)
● Anon. / "The Human Race, from the Creation to the Nineteenth Century" ("The North Cheshire Herald", Chester, England, 6 January 1866, p.2) (219-21)
Walter Hawkins (1809–date unknown) [items #31, #32]
Biography and Further Reading (222-24)
● Anon. / "The Negro Bishop in Exeter" ("The Western Times", Exeter, Devon, England, 6 August 1891, p.3) (225-26)
● Anon. / "Bishop Hawkins On His Slavery Days" ("The Western Daily Press", Bristol, England, 21 August 1891, p.5) (227)
Josiah Henson (1789–1883) [items #33, #34, #35, #36]
Biography and Further Reading (228-31)
● Anon. / "‘Uncle Tom’ in Portsmouth" ("Hampshire Telegraph & Sussex Chronicle", Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, 23 September 1876, p.8) (232-35)
● Anon. / "Uncle Tom at the Royal Albert Hall" ("Sheffield and Rotherham Independent", Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, 3 February 1877, p.11) (236-40)
● Anon. / "Uncle Tom in Dundee" ("Dundee Courier & Argus and Northern Warder", Dundee, Angus, Scotland, 9 March 1877, p.6) (241-42)
● Anon. / "Uncle Tom in Dundee" ("The Northern Warder and Bi-Weekly Courier and Argus", Dundee, Angus, Scotland, 13 March 1877, p.3) (243-45)
Josiah? Hughes (dates unknown) [item #37]
Biography and Further Reading (246-47)
● Anon. / "The American War" ("Bedfordshire Mercury", Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, 21 May 1864, p.4) (248-49)
Edward Irving (dates unknown) [item #38]
Biography and Further Reading (250-51)
● Anon. / "Lecture on Slavery by an Escaped Slave" ("The Cheltenham Chronicle", Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, 25 October 1864, p.2) (252-53)
John Andrew Jackson (c. 1825–c. 1899) and Julia Jackson (dates unknown) [item #39]
Biography and Further Reading (254-56)
● Anon. / "Lecture By A Fugitive Slave" ("The Gravesend Reporter", Gravesend, Kent, England, 1 September 1860, p.4) (257-58)
William Andrew Jackson (1832–date unknown) [item #40]
Biography and Further Reading (259-62)
● Anon. / "Anti-Slavery Meeting At the Bury Athenaeum: Address of Mr. Andrew Johnson, Late Coachman to Mr. Jefferson Davis" ("The Bury Times", Bury, Lancashire, England, 21 February 1863, p.2) (263-70)
R. M. Johnson (dates unknown) [item #41]
Biography and Further Reading (271-72)
● Anon. / "Lecture on American Slavery, by an Escaped Slave" ("The Essex Standard, and General Advertiser for the Eastern Counties", Colchester, Essex, England, 27 January 1865, p.3) (273-75)
Edmond Kelley (1817–1894) [items #42, #43]
Biography and Further Reading (276-78)
● Anon. / "Slavery" ("Bristol Times", Bristol, England, 26 February 1853, p.6) (279-80)
● Anon. / "Lecture on American Slavery" ("The Evening Freeman", Dublin, Ireland, 8 April 1853, p.4) (281-82)
John Sella Martin (1832–1876) [items #44, #45, #46, #47]
Biography and Further Reading (283-84)
● Anon. / "The Rev. Sella Martin’s Welcome" ("Daily News", London, England, 16 February 1863, p.3) (285)
● Anon. / "An Ex-Slave’s Opinion of the War" ("The Preston Chronicle", Preston, Lancashire, England, 5 September 1863, p.7) (286-91)
● Anon. / "The Experience of an Escaped Slave" ("Northampton Mercury", Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, 13 February 1864, p.5) (292-98)
● Anon. / "The Freedmen of America" ("The Leicester Chronicle and the Leicestershire Mercury", Leicester, Leicestershire, England, 16 February 1867, p.8) (299-302)
William M. Mitchell (c. 1826–c.1879) [items #48, #49]
Biography and Further Reading (303-06)
● Anon. / "Lecture on America, Last Night" ("Western Daily Press", Bristol, England, 7 March 1861, p.3) (307-13)
● Anon. / "American Slavery" ("The Leicester Chronicle", Leicester, Leicestershire, England, 21 June 1862, p.4) (314-17)
Nathaniel Paul (1793–1839) [items #50, #51]
Biography and Further Reading (318-19)
● Anon. / "Slavery in the United States" ("Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette", Devizes, Wiltshire, England, 31 January 1833, p.3) (320-23)
● Anon. / "Wilberforce Settlement" ("Bury and Norwich Post", Norwich, Norfolk, England, 11 December 1833, p.3) (324-26)
James William Charles Pennington (c. 1807–1870) [item #52]
Biography and Further Reading (327-30)
● Anon. / "American Slavery. Soiree to Dr. Pennington" ("The Newcastle Guardian", Newcastle, England, 27 April 1850, p.3) (331-33)
Joseph Charles Price (1854–1893) [items #53, #54]
Biography and Further Reading (334-36)
● Anon. / "A Black Minister on Negro Life: A Series of Lectures in Hastings" ("The Hastings and St Leonards Observer", Hastings, East Sussex, England, 1 October 1881, p.3) (337-41)
● Anon. / "Negro Progress in America" ("The County Express", Dudley, Worcestershire, England, 24 June 1882, p.2) (342-44)
Charles Lenox Remond (1810–1873) [items #55, #56]
Biography and Further Reading (345-48)
● Anon. / "Mr. Remond’s Lecture on Slavery" ("The Belfast News-Letter", Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, 15 October 1841, p.2) (349-50)
● Anon. / "American Slavery, and Prejudice Against Colour" ("Manchester Times", Manchester, Lancashire, England, 27 November 1841, p.3) (351-52)
Sarah Parker Remond (1826–1894) [items #57, #58, #59]
Biography and Further Reading (353-56)
● Anon. / "Miss Remond’s Anti-Slavery Lecture" ("The Clare Journal and Ennis Advertiser", Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, 17 March 1859, p.4) (357-58)
● Anon. / "Lecture on Slavery by Miss Remond" ("Birmingham Daily Post", Birmingham, England, 25 January 1861, p.3) (359-64)
● Anon. / "Lecture on American Slavery by Miss Remond" ("Leigh Chronicle and Weekly District Advertiser", Leigh, Lancashire, England, 1 September 1860, p.3) (365-66)
Moses Roper (c. 1815–1891) [items #60, #61, #62]
Biography and Further Reading (367-70)
● Anon. / "American Slavery" ("The Leicestershire Mercury and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties", Leicester, Leicestershire, England, 19 May 1838, p.2) (371-81)
● Anon. / "Moses Roper the Escaped Slave" ("The Bradford Observer", Bradford, Yorkshire, England, 5 March 1840, p.3) (382-83)
● Anon. / "Lecture on American Slavery" ("Hereford Times", Hereford, Herefordshire, England, 4 August 1855, p.9) (384-88)
Amanda Berry Smith (1837–1915) [item #63]
Biography and Further Reading (389-92)
● Anon. / "Christian Convention at Keswick" ("Carlisle Express and Examiner", Carlisle, Cumbria, England, 3 August 1878, p.6) (393-94)
Lewis Smith (dates unknown) [items #64, #65]
Biography and Further Reading (395-96)
● Anon. / "Popular Lectures at Surrey Chapel" ("The South London Chronicle", London, England, 9 March 1861, p.4) (397-400)
● Anon. / "The Freedmen of America" ("The Leeds Mercury", Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 14 April 1870, p.4) (401-03)
James Cheeney Thompson (dates unknown) [items #66, #67, #68]
Biography and Further Reading (404-05)
● Anon. / "American Slavery" ("The Lancaster Guardian", Lancaster, Lancashire, England, 12 October 1861, p.4) (406-07)
● Anon. / "The Evils of Slavery" ("The Ulverston Mirror", Ulverston, Lancashire, England, 9 November 1861, p.7) (408-11)
● Anon. / "American Slavery" ("Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press", Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England, 12 March 1864, p.4) (412-15)
D. E. Tobias (c. 1870–date unknown) [items #69, #70]
Biography and Further Reading (416-17)
● Anon. / "The Negro in America" ("The Evening Telegraph", Dundee, Angus, Scotland, 5 December 1898, p.5) (418-19)
● Anon. [‘By a Lady Correspondent’] / "Black Woman and White Woman" ("The Dundee Courier", Dundee, Angus, Scotland, 16 December 1898, p.6) (420-21)
William Troy (1827–1905) [item #71]
Biography and Further Reading (422-23)
● Anon. / "Condition of the Slaves of Canada" ("The Bristol Daily Post", Bristol, Bristol, England, 14 September 1860, p.2) (424-26)
Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817–c. 1866) [items #72, #73]
Biography and Further Reading (427-30)
● Anon. / "American Slavery" ("The Bury and Norwich Post and Suffolk Herald", Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, 19 July 1854, p.6) (431-38)
● Anon. / "American Slavery" ("The York Herald", York, Yorkshire, 28 October 1854, p.6) (439-42)
James Watkins (c. 1821–1825 - date unknown) [items #74, #75, #76]
Biography and Further Reading (443-45)
● Anon. / "Lecture on Slavery" ("The Wolverhampton Chronicle", Wolverhampton, West Midlands, 26 October 1853, p.4) (446-47)
● Anon. / "American Slavery" ("The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent", Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, 22 July 1854, p.12) (448-52)
● Anon. / "Lectures on Slavery at Stony Middleton" ("The Derby Mercury", Derby, Derbyshire, England, 9 April 1856, p.4) (453-54)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) [items #77, #78, #79]
Biography and Further Reading (455-58)
● Anon. / "Lynch Law in the Southern States of America" ("Aberdeen Weekly Journal", Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 25 April 1893, p.4) (459-61)
● Anon. / "Lynch Law in America" ("Reynold’s Newspaper", London, England, 3 June 1894, p.2) (462-63)
● Anon. / "The Negro--a Man and a Brother" ("The Leeds Mercury", Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 6 July 1894, p.3) (464-66)
Turner Williams (dates unknown) [item #80]
Biography and Further Reading (467-68)
● Anon. / "A Slave’s Adventures" ("Sheffield and Rotherham Independent", Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, 16 July 1853, p.3) (469-71)
Acknowledgements
Authors’ Note
● Ernest J. Quarles / Foreword (xxii-xxix)
● Celeste-Marie Bernier and Hannah-Rose Murray / Introduction (1-59)
● Celeste-Marie Bernier and Hannah-Rose Murray / Bibliography of Digital and Print Resources (60-70)
Benjamin William Brown (1841–date unknown) [items #1, #2]
Biography and Further Reading (71-72)
● Anon. / "An Ex-Slave at Tufnell-Park" ("The Islington Gazette", London, England, 22 August 1888, p.3) (73-78)
● Anon. / "Scenes in Slave-Land" ("Gravesend and Dartford Reporter", Gravesend, Kent, England, 25 January 1890, p.4) (79-81)
Hallie Quinn Brown (c. 1850–1949) [items #3, #4, #5]
Biography and Further Reading (82-85)
● Anon. / "The Education of Freed Slaves" ("The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent", Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, 27 February 1895, p.6) (86-88)
● Anon. / "The American Negro. His Aspirations and Grievances" ("The Edinburgh Evening News", Edinburgh, Scotland, 14 January 1896, p.4) (89-93)
● Anon. / "Miss Hallie Q. Brown at Rhyl" ("Rhyl Record and Advertiser", Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales, 10 December 1898, p.8) (94-96)
John Brown (c. 1818–1876) [item #6]
Biography and Further Reading (97-99)
● Anon. / "Anti Slavery Lecture" ("Bristol Times", Bristol, England, 25 September 1852, p.3) (100-02)
William Wells Brown (c. 1814–1884) [items #7, #8, #9, #10]
Biography and Further Reading (103-05)
● Anon. / "William Wells Brown" ("North and South Shields Gazette", North Shields, England, 4 January 1850, p.5) (106-07)
● Anon. / "Slavery in America" ("The Leeds Mercury", Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 19 January 1850, p.7) (108-17)
● Anon. / "Slavery in the United States" ("Carlisle Journal", Carlisle, England, 14 March 1851, p.2) (118-19)
● Anon. / "Three Fugitive Slaves in Nottingham" ("Nottingham Review", Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, 4 April 1851, p.3) (120-21)
Thomas Morris Chester (1834–1892) [items #11, #12]
Biography and Further Reading (122-24)
● Anon. / "Condition of the Negro" ("The Manchester Weekly Times", Manchester, England, 23 January 1864, p.3) (125-28)
● Anon. / "Captain Chester on the American War" ("The Ashton Weekly Reporter and Stalybridge and Dukinfield Chronicle", Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, 30 January 1864, p.3) (129-36)
Nelson Countee (c. 1833/1834–1886) [item #13]
Biography and Further Reading (137-38)
● Anon. / "Lecture by a Runaway Slave" ("Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle", Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, 19 July 1876, p.4) (139)
Ellen Craft (1826–1891) and William Craft (1824–1900) [items #14, #15, #16, #17]
Biography and Further Reading (140-43)
● Anon. / "Anti-Slavery Meeting in Newcastle" ("Newcastle Guardian", Newcastle, England, 15 March 1851, p.4) (144-48)
● Anon. / "Three Fugitive Slaves in Nottingham" ("Nottingham Review", Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, 4 April 1851, p.3) (149-52)
● Anon. / "Freedom in the United States" ("Bucks Herald, Uxbridge Advertiser, Windsor and Eton Journal", 26 November 1859, p.5) (153-54)
● Anon. / "Running One Thousand Miles for Freedom" ("East London Observer", 22 March 1862, p.2) (155-56)
Alexander Crummell (1819–1898) [item #18]
Biography and Further Reading (157-59)
● Anon. / "African Episcopal Church" ("The Preston Chronicle", Preston, Lancashire, England, 15 September 1849, p.5) (160-61)
William Howard Day (1825–1900) [item #19]
Biography and Further Reading (162-64)
● Anon. / "The Fugitive Slaves in Canada" ("The Hull Packet and East Riding Times", Hull, Yorkshire, England, 10 May 1861, p.6) (165-68)
Isaac Perry Dickerson (c. 1850/52–1900) [item #20]
Biography and Further Reading (169-70)
● Anon. / "Successful Temperance Mission" ("The Wiltshire Times", Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 20 November 1897, p.5) (171-72)
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) [items #21, #22, #23]
Biography and Further Reading [173-75]
● Anon. / "Mr. Frederick Douglas’s Lectures on American Slavery" ("Carlisle Journal", Carlisle, Cumbria, England, 22 August 1846, p.4) (176-81)
● Anon. / "Mr. Douglass" (Leeds Young Men’s Antislavery Society, "Leeds Mercury", Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 24 December 1859, p.7) (182-86)
● Anon. / "A Distinguished Coloured Visitor" ("Bridport News", Bridport, Dorset, England, 22 October 1886, p.1) (187-89)
Washington Duff (1829–date unknown) [item #24]
Biography and Further Reading (190-91)
● Anon. / "Slavery" ("The Cambridge Independent Press", Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, 28 January 1865, p.7) (192-93)
Francis Fedric (c. 1810–c.1870) [items #25, #26]
Biography and Further Reading (194-95)
● Anon. / "Lecture on American Slavery" ("The West Middlesex Advertiser and Family Journal", London, England, 8 March 1862, p.2) (196-97)
● Anon. / "The Horrors of Slavery" ("The West Middlesex Advertiser and Family Journal", London, England, 17 May 1862, p.3) (198-99)
Henry Highland Garnet (1815–1882) [items #27, #28]
Biography and Further Reading (200-04)
● Anon. / "Anti-Slavery and Free Labour" ("Worcestershire Chronicle", Worcester, Worcestershire, England, 26 March 1851, p.8) (205-06)
● Anon. / "American Slavery" ("The Hereford Times", Hereford, Herefordshire, England, 3 May 1851, p.7) (207-13)
Jacob D. Green (1813–unknown) [items #29, #30]
Biography and Further Reading (214-15)
● Anon. / "The American War and Slavery" ("The Bradford Review", Bradford, England, 12 September 1863, p.5) (216-18)
● Anon. / "The Human Race, from the Creation to the Nineteenth Century" ("The North Cheshire Herald", Chester, England, 6 January 1866, p.2) (219-21)
Walter Hawkins (1809–date unknown) [items #31, #32]
Biography and Further Reading (222-24)
● Anon. / "The Negro Bishop in Exeter" ("The Western Times", Exeter, Devon, England, 6 August 1891, p.3) (225-26)
● Anon. / "Bishop Hawkins On His Slavery Days" ("The Western Daily Press", Bristol, England, 21 August 1891, p.5) (227)
Josiah Henson (1789–1883) [items #33, #34, #35, #36]
Biography and Further Reading (228-31)
● Anon. / "‘Uncle Tom’ in Portsmouth" ("Hampshire Telegraph & Sussex Chronicle", Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, 23 September 1876, p.8) (232-35)
● Anon. / "Uncle Tom at the Royal Albert Hall" ("Sheffield and Rotherham Independent", Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, 3 February 1877, p.11) (236-40)
● Anon. / "Uncle Tom in Dundee" ("Dundee Courier & Argus and Northern Warder", Dundee, Angus, Scotland, 9 March 1877, p.6) (241-42)
● Anon. / "Uncle Tom in Dundee" ("The Northern Warder and Bi-Weekly Courier and Argus", Dundee, Angus, Scotland, 13 March 1877, p.3) (243-45)
Josiah? Hughes (dates unknown) [item #37]
Biography and Further Reading (246-47)
● Anon. / "The American War" ("Bedfordshire Mercury", Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, 21 May 1864, p.4) (248-49)
Edward Irving (dates unknown) [item #38]
Biography and Further Reading (250-51)
● Anon. / "Lecture on Slavery by an Escaped Slave" ("The Cheltenham Chronicle", Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, 25 October 1864, p.2) (252-53)
John Andrew Jackson (c. 1825–c. 1899) and Julia Jackson (dates unknown) [item #39]
Biography and Further Reading (254-56)
● Anon. / "Lecture By A Fugitive Slave" ("The Gravesend Reporter", Gravesend, Kent, England, 1 September 1860, p.4) (257-58)
William Andrew Jackson (1832–date unknown) [item #40]
Biography and Further Reading (259-62)
● Anon. / "Anti-Slavery Meeting At the Bury Athenaeum: Address of Mr. Andrew Johnson, Late Coachman to Mr. Jefferson Davis" ("The Bury Times", Bury, Lancashire, England, 21 February 1863, p.2) (263-70)
R. M. Johnson (dates unknown) [item #41]
Biography and Further Reading (271-72)
● Anon. / "Lecture on American Slavery, by an Escaped Slave" ("The Essex Standard, and General Advertiser for the Eastern Counties", Colchester, Essex, England, 27 January 1865, p.3) (273-75)
Edmond Kelley (1817–1894) [items #42, #43]
Biography and Further Reading (276-78)
● Anon. / "Slavery" ("Bristol Times", Bristol, England, 26 February 1853, p.6) (279-80)
● Anon. / "Lecture on American Slavery" ("The Evening Freeman", Dublin, Ireland, 8 April 1853, p.4) (281-82)
John Sella Martin (1832–1876) [items #44, #45, #46, #47]
Biography and Further Reading (283-84)
● Anon. / "The Rev. Sella Martin’s Welcome" ("Daily News", London, England, 16 February 1863, p.3) (285)
● Anon. / "An Ex-Slave’s Opinion of the War" ("The Preston Chronicle", Preston, Lancashire, England, 5 September 1863, p.7) (286-91)
● Anon. / "The Experience of an Escaped Slave" ("Northampton Mercury", Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, 13 February 1864, p.5) (292-98)
● Anon. / "The Freedmen of America" ("The Leicester Chronicle and the Leicestershire Mercury", Leicester, Leicestershire, England, 16 February 1867, p.8) (299-302)
William M. Mitchell (c. 1826–c.1879) [items #48, #49]
Biography and Further Reading (303-06)
● Anon. / "Lecture on America, Last Night" ("Western Daily Press", Bristol, England, 7 March 1861, p.3) (307-13)
● Anon. / "American Slavery" ("The Leicester Chronicle", Leicester, Leicestershire, England, 21 June 1862, p.4) (314-17)
Nathaniel Paul (1793–1839) [items #50, #51]
Biography and Further Reading (318-19)
● Anon. / "Slavery in the United States" ("Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette", Devizes, Wiltshire, England, 31 January 1833, p.3) (320-23)
● Anon. / "Wilberforce Settlement" ("Bury and Norwich Post", Norwich, Norfolk, England, 11 December 1833, p.3) (324-26)
James William Charles Pennington (c. 1807–1870) [item #52]
Biography and Further Reading (327-30)
● Anon. / "American Slavery. Soiree to Dr. Pennington" ("The Newcastle Guardian", Newcastle, England, 27 April 1850, p.3) (331-33)
Joseph Charles Price (1854–1893) [items #53, #54]
Biography and Further Reading (334-36)
● Anon. / "A Black Minister on Negro Life: A Series of Lectures in Hastings" ("The Hastings and St Leonards Observer", Hastings, East Sussex, England, 1 October 1881, p.3) (337-41)
● Anon. / "Negro Progress in America" ("The County Express", Dudley, Worcestershire, England, 24 June 1882, p.2) (342-44)
Charles Lenox Remond (1810–1873) [items #55, #56]
Biography and Further Reading (345-48)
● Anon. / "Mr. Remond’s Lecture on Slavery" ("The Belfast News-Letter", Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, 15 October 1841, p.2) (349-50)
● Anon. / "American Slavery, and Prejudice Against Colour" ("Manchester Times", Manchester, Lancashire, England, 27 November 1841, p.3) (351-52)
Sarah Parker Remond (1826–1894) [items #57, #58, #59]
Biography and Further Reading (353-56)
● Anon. / "Miss Remond’s Anti-Slavery Lecture" ("The Clare Journal and Ennis Advertiser", Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, 17 March 1859, p.4) (357-58)
● Anon. / "Lecture on Slavery by Miss Remond" ("Birmingham Daily Post", Birmingham, England, 25 January 1861, p.3) (359-64)
● Anon. / "Lecture on American Slavery by Miss Remond" ("Leigh Chronicle and Weekly District Advertiser", Leigh, Lancashire, England, 1 September 1860, p.3) (365-66)
Moses Roper (c. 1815–1891) [items #60, #61, #62]
Biography and Further Reading (367-70)
● Anon. / "American Slavery" ("The Leicestershire Mercury and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties", Leicester, Leicestershire, England, 19 May 1838, p.2) (371-81)
● Anon. / "Moses Roper the Escaped Slave" ("The Bradford Observer", Bradford, Yorkshire, England, 5 March 1840, p.3) (382-83)
● Anon. / "Lecture on American Slavery" ("Hereford Times", Hereford, Herefordshire, England, 4 August 1855, p.9) (384-88)
Amanda Berry Smith (1837–1915) [item #63]
Biography and Further Reading (389-92)
● Anon. / "Christian Convention at Keswick" ("Carlisle Express and Examiner", Carlisle, Cumbria, England, 3 August 1878, p.6) (393-94)
Lewis Smith (dates unknown) [items #64, #65]
Biography and Further Reading (395-96)
● Anon. / "Popular Lectures at Surrey Chapel" ("The South London Chronicle", London, England, 9 March 1861, p.4) (397-400)
● Anon. / "The Freedmen of America" ("The Leeds Mercury", Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 14 April 1870, p.4) (401-03)
James Cheeney Thompson (dates unknown) [items #66, #67, #68]
Biography and Further Reading (404-05)
● Anon. / "American Slavery" ("The Lancaster Guardian", Lancaster, Lancashire, England, 12 October 1861, p.4) (406-07)
● Anon. / "The Evils of Slavery" ("The Ulverston Mirror", Ulverston, Lancashire, England, 9 November 1861, p.7) (408-11)
● Anon. / "American Slavery" ("Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press", Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England, 12 March 1864, p.4) (412-15)
D. E. Tobias (c. 1870–date unknown) [items #69, #70]
Biography and Further Reading (416-17)
● Anon. / "The Negro in America" ("The Evening Telegraph", Dundee, Angus, Scotland, 5 December 1898, p.5) (418-19)
● Anon. [‘By a Lady Correspondent’] / "Black Woman and White Woman" ("The Dundee Courier", Dundee, Angus, Scotland, 16 December 1898, p.6) (420-21)
William Troy (1827–1905) [item #71]
Biography and Further Reading (422-23)
● Anon. / "Condition of the Slaves of Canada" ("The Bristol Daily Post", Bristol, Bristol, England, 14 September 1860, p.2) (424-26)
Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817–c. 1866) [items #72, #73]
Biography and Further Reading (427-30)
● Anon. / "American Slavery" ("The Bury and Norwich Post and Suffolk Herald", Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, 19 July 1854, p.6) (431-38)
● Anon. / "American Slavery" ("The York Herald", York, Yorkshire, 28 October 1854, p.6) (439-42)
James Watkins (c. 1821–1825 - date unknown) [items #74, #75, #76]
Biography and Further Reading (443-45)
● Anon. / "Lecture on Slavery" ("The Wolverhampton Chronicle", Wolverhampton, West Midlands, 26 October 1853, p.4) (446-47)
● Anon. / "American Slavery" ("The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent", Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, 22 July 1854, p.12) (448-52)
● Anon. / "Lectures on Slavery at Stony Middleton" ("The Derby Mercury", Derby, Derbyshire, England, 9 April 1856, p.4) (453-54)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) [items #77, #78, #79]
Biography and Further Reading (455-58)
● Anon. / "Lynch Law in the Southern States of America" ("Aberdeen Weekly Journal", Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 25 April 1893, p.4) (459-61)
● Anon. / "Lynch Law in America" ("Reynold’s Newspaper", London, England, 3 June 1894, p.2) (462-63)
● Anon. / "The Negro--a Man and a Brother" ("The Leeds Mercury", Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 6 July 1894, p.3) (464-66)
Turner Williams (dates unknown) [item #80]
Biography and Further Reading (467-68)
● Anon. / "A Slave’s Adventures" ("Sheffield and Rotherham Independent", Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, 16 July 1853, p.3) (469-71)
About the anthology
● The content of this anthology consists of reports of speeches by African American figures traveling and advocating in Britain and Ireland: these "reports" are not written by the African American figures themselves, but by local journalists. They convey the thoughts, sentiments, and words of these African American figures but in a discourse authored by others. As such, they have a hybrid--and some might argue, dubious--status as a collection of African American speeches. Nonetheless, they are the documentary traces available of these speeches, and so long as we are aware of the mediations--the double-voicedness and possible distortions--of these materials, we can use them to gain insight about these speeches.
Publisher's description
"Brings together, for the first time, eighty trailblazing speeches by forty-two African American freedom-fighters who made a revolutionary impact on UK and Irish nineteenth-century transatlantic literary cultures and political histories
● Reproduces speeches that have not previously been transcribed or published in a contemporary scholarly edition
● Includes an in-depth introductory essay, author biographies, annotations, and detailed bibliographies to provide specialist and general audiences with the literary, political, historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts that were fundamental to nineteenth century Black transatlantic literary production
● These 80 speeches constitute radical declarations of Black artistic and political independence by bearing witness to each orator’s determination to resist white racist attempts to script, edit, and censor Black acts and arts of imaginative cultural production
"This is the first anthology of eighty speeches by forty-two world famous and under-researched African American freedom fighters, liberators and human rights campaigners living and working in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England in the nineteenth century. Their pioneering and revolutionary works are supported by an in-depth introductory essay, author biographies, scholarly annotations and detailed bibliographies.
"All these human rights orators testify to their lifelong ‘fight for freedom’ across their radical and revolutionary works. All their lives, they warred against the ‘sufferings and horrors’ of enslavement as a centuries-old ‘cursed institution.’ ‘Words are weapons’ in their fight for Black liberation. Across their life’s works, they all protested against the rise of the ‘spirit of slavery’ in white supremacist and white racist US and British transatlantic societies."
● Reproduces speeches that have not previously been transcribed or published in a contemporary scholarly edition
● Includes an in-depth introductory essay, author biographies, annotations, and detailed bibliographies to provide specialist and general audiences with the literary, political, historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts that were fundamental to nineteenth century Black transatlantic literary production
● These 80 speeches constitute radical declarations of Black artistic and political independence by bearing witness to each orator’s determination to resist white racist attempts to script, edit, and censor Black acts and arts of imaginative cultural production
"This is the first anthology of eighty speeches by forty-two world famous and under-researched African American freedom fighters, liberators and human rights campaigners living and working in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England in the nineteenth century. Their pioneering and revolutionary works are supported by an in-depth introductory essay, author biographies, scholarly annotations and detailed bibliographies.
"All these human rights orators testify to their lifelong ‘fight for freedom’ across their radical and revolutionary works. All their lives, they warred against the ‘sufferings and horrors’ of enslavement as a centuries-old ‘cursed institution.’ ‘Words are weapons’ in their fight for Black liberation. Across their life’s works, they all protested against the rise of the ‘spirit of slavery’ in white supremacist and white racist US and British transatlantic societies."
Item Number
A0612