Slave ads and abolition debate appear in 1848 era notices
A scanned 1848 column includes ad copies selling enslaved people at public auction and solicitations for buyers, with commentary on U S history. It interweaves abolitionist and royal-visit notes, church references, and Channing reunion remarks. It contrasts liberty struggles with slave trade contexts and notes European royal sympathy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garrison
Cuanacteristics
North Star
Hope H. Slatter
Pratt Street
B. M
W. L. Campsett
H. Swatter
St. Peter's
Mr. Atkinson
S. H. Goll
Baltimore Street
Baltimore Sun
St. Peter's Church
Atkinson
Military critics on soldiers and war from period view
The Sheffield Independent comments on Napier's defense of military management. It condemns the idea that soldiers are raised above humanity, arguing the profession degrades men to brute level and enforces silence amid suffering. It cites Wellington and Sir Harry Smith on war’s horrors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Wellington
Harry Smith
Napier
Liverpool
Sheffield Independent
Court and Royal News From Windsor and Parliament
The Queen and Prince Albert with their children stay at Windsor Castle and host guests including Jenny Lind and Lordly peers. Parliament opens February 1 as Lord Russell and ministers prepare circulars. government offices may move to Somerset House. Navy Estimates aim to cut a million from last year’s outlay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Albert
Windsor Castle
Jenny Lind
Anderson
Signor Belletti
Duchess of Sutherland
Caroline Leveson Gower
Duke and Duchess of Bedford
Marquis and Marchioness of
Board of Excise
Broad Street
Somerset House
House of Commons
Harry Vane
Bunbury
John Russell
Downing Street
J. Russeny
the Times
Gibson Craig
Treasury
Charles Trevelyan
Sir C. Trevelyan
Navy
Morning Post
Revival of Charter Move at Tottenham Court Road Meeting
A public meeting of the working classes at the Literary Institution in Tottenham Court Road heard F O’Connor and others denounce Ireland and the gagging bills while pledging to press the six Charter points as law. Other items covered include Welsh education grants and secular teaching advocacy by Rhys Jones and Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John-street
Tottenham Court-Road
Messrs
F. O'Connor
M.P
Dickson
Kydd
M'Grath
Ireland
Mr. Cobden
Wales
James Rhys Jones
Rugby
Leicestershire
W. Williams
Coventry
South Wales
Brecon
Independent College
E. Davies
The Pastor's Wife A Memoir of Mrs Sherman of Surrey Chapel
A review of Mrs Sherman daughter of B Tucker born 1806 in Kentish Town, marriage to Mr Sherman 1835, her early efforts in Enfield and Reading Sunday schools, and later work at Surrey Chapel. It notes her devotion to Maternal Societies, a journey to Austria for hydropathy, her daughter's death, and her own decline into consumption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Surrey Chapel
London
C. Gilpin
B. Tucker
Kentish Town
Church of Christ
Enfield
Castle-street
Reading
Surre Chapel
United Kingdom
Austria
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Far West
Far ‘West
Queeen Victoria
Permanity
United States
Europa
Queen Victoria
Niagara Falls
Prince of Wales
New York
The
Daily News
Cuannina
Channing
Man
Earth
Heaven
Berkshire
Bennington
Vermont
Richmond
Boston
N.Y
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