Speech of the Hon. Montgomery Blair (postmaster general), on the revolutionary schemes of the ultra abolitionists, and in defence of the policy of the President : delivered at the unconditional Union meeting, held at Rockville, Montgomery Co., Maryland, on Saturday, October 3, 1863.

Mode of access: Internet.

A candid appeal to the citizens of the United States, proving that the doctrines advanced and the measures pursued by the abolitionists, relative to the subject of emancipation, are inconsistent with the teachings and directions of the Bible, and that those clergymen engaged in the dissemination of these principles, should be immediately dismissed by their respective congregations, as false teachers.

Mode of access: Internet.

Collection of valuable documents : being Birney's vindication of abolitionists - Protest of American A.S. Society - To the people of the United States, or, To such Americans as value their rights - Letter from the executive committee of N.Y. A.S. Society, to the exec. com. of the Ohio state A.S.S. at Cincinnati - Outrage upon Southern rights.

Mode of access: Internet.

The crisis: being, an enquiry into the measures proper to be adopted by the Southern states, in reference to the proceedings of the abolitionists.

Xerox copy.

Letter to nephew, June 7, 1881

Handwritten letter dated June 7, 1881, to nephew, Daniel Avery Whedon.

Contracting Freedom: Governance and East Indian Indenture in the British Atlantic, 1838-1917

This is a dissertation about identity and governance, and how they are mutually constituted. Between 1838 and 1917, the British brought approximately half a million East Indian laborers to the Atlantic to work on sugar plantations. The dissertation argues that contrary to previous historiographical assumptions, indentured East Indians were an amorphous mass of people drawn from various regions of British India. They were brought together not by their innate "Indian-ness" upon their arrival in the Caribbean, but by the common experience of indenture recruitment, transportation and plantation life. Ideas of innate "Indian-ness" were products of an imperial discourse that emerged from and shaped official approaches to governing East Indians in the Atlantic. Government officials and planters promoted visions of East Indians as "primitive" subjects who engaged in child marriage and wife murder. Officials mobilized ideas about gender to sustain racialized stereotypes of East Indian subjects. East Indian women were thought to be promiscuous, and East Indian men were violent and depraved (especially in response to East Indian women's promiscuity). By pointing to these stereotypes about East Indians, government officials and planters could highlight the promise of indenture as a civilizing mechanism. This dissertation links the study of governance and subject formation to complicate ideas of colonial rule as static. It uncovers how colonial processes evolved to handle the challenges posed by migrant populations.

The primary architects of indenture, Caribbean governments, the British Colonial Office, and planters hoped that East Indian indentured laborers would form a stable and easily-governed labor force. They anticipated that the presence of these laborers would undermine the demands of Afro-Creole workers for higher wages and shorter working hours. Indenture, however, was controversial among British liberals who saw it as potentially hindering the creation of a free labor market, and abolitionists who also feared that indenture was a new form of slavery. Using court records, newspapers, legislative documents, bureaucratic correspondence, memoirs, novels, and travel accounts from archives and libraries in Britain, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago, this dissertation explores how indenture was envisioned and constantly re-envisioned in response to its critics. It chronicles how the struggles between the planter class and the colonial state for authority over indentured laborers affected the way that indenture functioned in the British Atlantic. In addition to focusing on indenture's official origins, this dissertation examines the actions of East Indian indentured subjects as they are recorded in the imperial archive to explore how these people experienced indenture.

Indenture contracts were central to the justification of indenture and to the creation of a pliable labor force in the Atlantic. According to English common law, only free parties could enter into contracts. Indenture contracts limited the period of indenture and affirmed that laborers would be remunerated for their labor. While the architects of indenture pointed to contracts as evidence that indenture was not slavery, contracts in reality prevented laborers from participating in the free labor market and kept the wages of indentured laborers low. Further, in late nineteenth-century Britain, contracts were civil matters. In the British Atlantic, indentured laborers who violated the terms of their contracts faced criminal trials and their associated punishments such as imprisonment and hard labor. Officials used indenture contracts to exploit the labor and limit the mobility of indentured laborers in a manner that was reminiscent of slavery but that instead established indentured laborers as subjects with limited rights. The dissertation chronicles how indenture contracts spawned a complex inter-imperial bureaucracy in British India, Britain, and the Caribbean that was responsible for the transportation and governance of East Indian indentured laborers overseas.

William Still's Boarding House advertisement [n.d.]

Original advertisement for William Still's Boarding House, No. 832 South Street, below 9th, south side Philad'a [sic]. Not dated. The advertisement includes handwritten marginalia, possibly by William Still, on the left-hand side referring to St. Catharines. There is a small embossed stamp on the upper left-hand corner of the advertisement. This item was in the possession of the Rick Bell Family of St. Catharines.Handwritten marginalia (original spelling and punctuation): "Do remember me very kindly to all my enquiring friends _ I but seldom hear of late from St. Catherines" The street number printed in the original advertisement (374) has been crossed out in black ink and a handwritten "832" has been inserted. William Still was an African-American abolitionist from Philadelphia and clerk of the Anti-Slavery Society who by his own account assisted 649 slaves receive freedom. He kept records on fugitive slaves so their relatives could find them later. In 1872, he published his records in a book entitled, The Underground Railroad. Source: William Still Underground Railroad Foundation: http://www.undergroundrr.com/foundation/about.htm

¿El fin justifica los miedos? Perspectiva genealógica de los debates sobre la pena de muerte en Colombia

A lo largo de la historia republicana de Colombia el debate sobre la pena de muerte siempre ha estado presente, directa o indirectamente. A pesar de que se abolió oficialmente en 1910, ha sido frecuente escuchar voces que se muestran favorables a una reaplicación de la pena de muerte. Uno de los momentos más significativos, quizá el más importante hasta la fecha, ocurrió en 1925. El objetivo de este artículo es reflexionar sobre el proceso histórico del cadalso en Colombia, buscando examinar las posiciones presentadas por abolicionistas y defensores de la pena de muerte en los primeros años del siglo XX. El artículo se divide en dos partes. La primera aborda reflexiones filosóficas sobre la pena de muerte, alrededor de Hobbes y Spinoza, incluyendo algunas referencias sociológicas de Durkheim. La segunda se concentra en estudiar algunas polémicas a favor y en contra del restablecimiento de la pena de muerte en Colombia.-----Throughout Colombia’s republican history the debate on the death penalty has always been present, either directly or indirectly. Despite it being officially abolished in 1910, many have frequently been heard favoring a reestablishment of the death penalty. One of the most significant events, and perhaps the most important to date, took place in 1925. The purpose of this article is to reflect on the historic process of scaffolding in Colombia, seeking to examine the opinions presented by abolitionists and defenders of the death penalty during the early years of the 20th century. It is divided into two parts. The first addresses the philosophical questions regarding the death penalty, from Hobbes and Spinoza, and including some sociological references to Durkheim. The second concentrates on studying some of the polemics in favor and against the reestablishment of the death penalty in Colombia.

The ... annual report of the Aberdeen Anti-Slavery Society for promoting the mitigation and ultimate abolition of Negro slavery.

"With an account of the proceedings of the meeting, etc."

William Lloyd Garrison,

Mode of access: Internet.

Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity.

Title from vol. t.p.

Autobiography, diary, and correspondence.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of a delegate to the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women : held in Philadelphia, May, 1838; including an account of other meetings held in Pennsylvania Hall, and of the riot. Addressed to the Fall River Female Anti-Slavery Society, and published by its request.

Not cited in Lib. Company. Afro-Americana.

Answer to a letter from the Hon. F. H. Elmore, of South-Carolina.

Includes F. H. Elmore's letter.

Minutes of proceedings of the Requited Labor Convention, held in Philadelphia, on the 17th and 18th of the Fifth month, and by adjournment on the 5th and 6th of the Ninth month, 1838.

Address also published separately.