The Black Abolitionist Papers

Vol. V: The United States, 1859-1865

C. Peter Ripley, Michael F. Hembree, Donald Yacovone

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN:
  9781469624426
  9780807820070
• eBook ISBN:
  9798890866455
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

This five-volume documentary collection — culled from an international archival search that turned up over 14,000 letters, speeches, pamphlets, essays, and newspaper editorials — reveals how black abolitionists represented the core of the antislavery movement. While the first two volumes consider black abolitionists in the British Isles and Canada (the home of some 60,000 black Americans on the eve of the Civil War), the remaining volumes examine the activities and opinions of black abolitionists in the United States from 1830 until the end of the Civil War. In particular, these volumes focus on their reactions to African colonization and the idea of gradual emancipation, the Fugitive Slave Law, and the promise brought by emancipation during the war.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Editorial Statement
• 1. The Emigration Alternative
• 2. William J. Whipper to Benjamin S. Jones 15 April 1859
• 3. Samuel Ringgold Ward to G. W. Reynolds 7 May 1859
• 4. Thomas Hamilton to John Jay
• 5. Essay by William J. Watkins 5 September 1859
• 6. Henry Highland Garnet to Simeon S. Jocelyn 14 September 1859
• 7. Editorial by Thomas Hamilton 5 November 1859
• 8. Editorial by Thomas Hamilton 19 November 1859
• 9. John A. Copeland, Jr., and the Harpers Ferry Raid
• 10. Resolutions by William Lambert Presented at the Second Baptist Church Detroit, Michigan 2 December 1859
• 11. Circular by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper for Arkansas Free Blacks January 1860
• 12. Speech by John S. Rock Delivered at the Meionaon Boston, Massachusetts 5 March 1860
• 13. Editorial by Thomas Hamilton 17 March 1860
• 14. William Anderson to William C. Nell April 1860
• 15. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper to Jane E. Hitchcock Jones 21 September 1860
• 16. James McCune Smith and the Struggle for Equal Suffrage
• 17. Speech by H. Ford Douglas Delivered at the Town Hall Salem, Ohio 23 September 1860
• 18. Editorial by Thomas Hamilton 22 December 1860
• 19. James McCune Smith to Henry Highland Garnet 30 December 1860 5 January 1861
• 20. Editorials by George Lawrence, Jr. 13 April 1861 27 April 1861
• 21. James McCune Smith to Gerrit Smith 22 August 1861
• 22. The Black Role in the Civil War
• 23. Petition of William E. Walker to the United States Congress December 1861
• 24. Robert Hamilton to John Jay 27 January 1862
• 25. John Oliver to William L. Coan 5 February 1862
• 26. "What Shall We Do with the Contrabands?" by James Madison Bell
• 27. Report by William Still 22 May 1862
• 28. Editorial by Philip A. Bell 14 June 1862
• 29. William H. Parham to Jacob C. White, Jr. 7 September 1862
• 30. George B. Vashon to Abraham Lincoln [September 1862]
• 31. John Oliver to Simeon S. Jocelyn 25 November 1862 17 February 1863
• 32. H. Ford Douglas to Frederick Douglass 8 January 1863
• 33. H. Ford Douglas to Ralph
• 34. John Oliver to Simeon S. Jocelyn 14 January 1863
• 35. Editorial by Robert Hamilton 17 January 1863
• 36. H. Ford Douglas to Owen Lovejoy 3 February 1863
• 37. Editorial by Peter Anderson 14 February 1863
• 38. James H. Hudson to Peter Anderson 25 February 1863
• 39. Meunomennie L. Maimi to T. A. Maimi March 1863
• 40. Harriet A. Jacobs to Lydia Maria Child 18 March 1863
• 41. George E. Stephens to Robert Hamilton 2 April 1863
• 42. Alexander T. Augusta to Editor, Washington National Republican 15 May 1863
• 43. Sattira A. Douglas to Robert Hamilton 9 June 1863
• 44. Editorial by Robert Hamilton 20 June 1863
• 45. Harriet Tubman to "Boston Friends" 30 June 1863
• 46. Manifesto of the Colored Citizens of the State of New York 16 July 1863
• 47. The New York City Draft Riots
• 48. The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment
• 49. First Annual Report of the Contraband Relief Association Presented at the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church Washington, D.C. 9 August 1863
• 50. Report by the Anti-Slavery Committee of the Genesee Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Presented at Binghamton, New York 5 September 1863
• 51. Editorial by Robert Hamilton 26 September 1863
• 52. Martin R. Delany to Edwin M. Stanton 15 December 1863
• 53. "Rhode Island" to Robert Hamilton 10 January 1864
• 54. Anonymous Washington, D.C., Correspondent to Robert Hamilton 17 January 1864
• 55. John S. Rock to the Soldiers of the Fifth United States Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment 30 May 1864
• 56. The 1864 Presidential Election
• 57. William D. Forten to Charles Sumner 18 June 1864
• 58. Sattira A. Douglas to Robert Hamilton 4 July 1864
• 59. The Mission to the Freedmen
• 60. George E. Stephens to Robert Hamilton 1 August 1864
• 61. James McCune Smith to Robert Hamilton August 1864
• 62. Speech by John S. Rock Delivered at the Wesleyan Methodist Church Syracuse, New York 6 October 1864
• 63. John S. Rock to Charles Sumner 17 December 1864
• 64. Joseph E. Sampson to Robert Hamilton 23 January 1865
• 65. Editorial by S. W. Rogers 22 April 1865
• 66. J. Sella Martin to Editor, New York Evening Post 24 April 1865
• 67. Speech by Charles Lenox Remond Delivered at the Union Square Congregational Church New York, New York 9 May 1865
• 68. Constitution of the Colored Men's Equal Rights League of Richmond 9 May 1865
• 69. H. Ford Douglas and the Impressment of Black Troops
• 70. Address by a Committee of Norfolk Blacks 26 June 1865
• 71. Speech by Martin R. Delany
• 72. Jermain Wesley Loguen to Robert Hamilton 25 July 1865
• 73. Editorial by Philip A. Bell 28 July 1865
• 74. Editorial by Robert Hamilton 3 September 1865
• 75. Editorial by Robert Hamilton 9 September 1865
• 76. Editorial by Philip A. Bell 15 September 1865
• 77. George T. Downing to Robert Hamilton 20 October 1865
• 78. Speech by John Mercer Langston Delivered at the Masonic Hall Indianapolis, Indiana 25 October 1865
• 79. Essay by J. W. C. Pennington 29 November 1865
• 80. Samuel Childress to Robert Hamilton 29 November 1865
• Index