LETTERS ON SLAVERY AND ABOLITIONIST THEORIES
A long debate argues abolition as a moral duty and political strategy. Pro abolitionists insist church reform and public pressure will end slavery. colonization is attacked as self serving. J B Johnson reports abolition lectures across Indiana Illinois and Missouri and sends funds for the Philanthropist and associated causes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellerontaine
Logan Co. O
St. Louis
Indiana
Illinois
Randolph County
Columbus
Col. Jas. Morrow
South Hanover
Princeton
R. Stormont
J. J. M'Clarken
Bloomington
Presbyterian Church
South
Miami U. S. Society
Logan County
Michigan
Ohio
J. B. Johnson
Result of Emancipation in the West Indies
A meeting in Orange Street Chapel heard John Scoble describe emancipation impact in Barbadoes, Trinidad, and British Guiana. He reported higher sugar crops in 1838 vs the apprenticeship period, improved education and religion among freed people, fewer criminals, and greater real estate values, with Jamaica shown as mixed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Bacon
Orange-street
British West Indies
John Scoble
Taylor
Scoble
Barbadoes
Trinidad
British Guiana
Guiana
Jamaica
D&c
J. S
England
West Indies
Hays
Dave
Antigua
United States
New Haven Herald
Slave-Whip Rumor Sparks Debate in Newark Office
A May 1839 letter to the Emancipator discusses a so called slave whip manufactured in Newark for punishing enslaved people. The writer notes differing methods across slave states and claims the whip is nothing new, arguing the South seeks peace over harsh punishment while defending slavery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tee
Free States
South
Zion
Heavh
Free State
West Indies
David
Sabaoth
J. W
Yellow Creek
Evening Post
New York
Mar
Burron
Newark
New Jersey
John Smith, Jr
Arkansas
Pennsylvania
Wagoner
Alleghanies
Maryland
Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
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THE
Anti-Slavery Society
4Th & 6Th
East Side
Cincinnati
Samuel Hall
Communications
Lir Wilson D
John Rankin
Antilavery Society
Philanthropist
Principles OF Abolitionism
Morris
U. S. Senate