Sermon Denouncing ‘Free Love’ Without Marriage
1855 sermon by J.W.C. Pennington condemning the Free Love movement as a threat to marriage, social order, youth, and salvation; urges vigilance and moral resistance.
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Sermon Denouncing ‘Free Love’ Without Marriage
October 15, 1855 Letter to the Colored National Convention
J.W.C. Pennington's 1855 letter urges a continental anti‑slavery coalition and a Western Continent Anti‑Slavery Convention; mentions a forthcoming report on the religious state of Colored people.
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Letter of Sympathy
Mid-1855 newspaper pieces urging African American self-organization and conventions for advancement; reports Oregon's pro-slavery measures and political strife; notes on Canadian self-government.
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The Case of Rev. Dr. Pennington
John Mercer Langston argues American slavery denies full civil, religious, and political liberty, corrupts parties and laws, and must be opposed.
May 1855 Letter and Notice from J.W.C. Pennington
Frederick Douglass' Paper reports brutal torture and sale of slaves in Bourbon County, KY, and local-press suppression by influential owners. Exposes legal failure and community complicity.
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Letter from Rev. Dr. Pennington
Reports: a Parkville, MO mob destroyed a Free-Soil press and threatened abolitionists; defense of the New England Emigrant Aid Company; a woman files suit claiming freedom under Louisiana law.
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March 1855 Letter from Rev. Dr. Pennington
1855 abolitionist newspaper covering anti-slavery meetings and lectures (Loguen, Wilson), political strife (Know Nothings, Loring removal, Wilson's election). Urges immediate emancipation and temperance.
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Look Out for the Slave-Catchers
1855 Frederick Douglass pieces decry federal injustices against free Black Americans—discriminatory laws, the Fugitive Slave Act, refusal to recognize Haiti—and urge organized political action.
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February 1855 Letter from Rev. Dr. Pennington
Mid-19th-century letters debating whether abolitionists should concentrate on one cause or engage many; discusses ministers, press, Sabbath use for preaching, racial solidarity, and church alliances.
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November 30, 1852 Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe
Companion documents to Uncle Tom's Cabin exposing slavery's dehumanizing effects. Testimonies show the erasure of Black humanity and a desperate craving for dignity.
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A Hard Case
1852 Presbyterian newspaper pieces: reports on Catholic–Protestant disputes, a pastor defending Assembly remarks, missionary optimism and travel notes to biblical sites like Jacob’s well.
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Speech Opposing the African Colonization Society
Rev. J.W.C. Pennington condemns colonization, argues Black Americans are U.S. citizens who should remain, exposes Liberia's compromised independence, and urges missions over emigration.
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Rev. Dr. Pennington: An Account of James W.C. Pennington’s Escape
Report of a London Congregational meeting debating American slavery and the Fugitive Slave Law, urging united Christian testimony while warning against public shaming of Americans.
Speech Regarding the Fugitive Slave Law
Abolitionist J.W.C. Pennington denounces the U.S. Fugitive Slave Law, reads a bounty-warrant for a fugitive 'Harry,' and urges aid for escaped slaves and free-labour resettlement.
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The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W.C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave
James W. C. Pennington's autobiographical preface condemns the "chattel principle" of slavery, recounting family separations, sexual exploitation, and fundraising to redeem enslaved children. He urges Christians to recognize slavery's inherent injustice and act for emancipation.
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Speech in England Encouraging Consumption of Free-Labour Products
Rev. Dr. Pennington, a fugitive slave, calls the new fugitive-slave bill unenforceable and warns free states. He urges purchasing free-labour goods as Britain seeks new cotton sources.
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Speech Regarding Contentment Among Slaves
J.W.C. Pennington (1850) condemns American slavery as a crime against humanity and God, noting slaves are treated as legal property and defending free Black churches as owned by free colored people.
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A Lecture Delivered Before the Glasgow Young Men’s Christian Association
J.W.C. Pennington’s 1850 lecture condemns American slavery, recounts abuses such as the 1740 New York "Negro Plot," and argues slavery corrupts Christian civilization.
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Speech in Edinburgh Regarding the Injustice of American Slavery
James Pennington (1850) argues passionately that American slavery is theft, murder, and moral corruption, refuting pro-slavery readings of Scripture and urging its abolition.
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