Identifier: liberty00lcames (find matches)
Title: "Liberty."
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Ames, Julius Rubens, 1801-1850
Subjects: Slavery -- United States Slaves -- United States Social conditions
Publisher: (New York, American Anti-Slavery Society)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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THE FIRST SCENE I.J BRITISH EMANCIPATION. Granville Sharpe rescuing a young African, claimed as a slave, fromhis tyrant, in presence of the Mayor of London. Sharpe pursued nishumane course, and his elahorate researches produced the work entitledThe injustice and dangerous tendency of toleratms slavery, and pro-cured the o-rand and glorious decision from the British courts of justicepublished in 1769 in the face of all Euiope and the world, That everyslave was free, as soon as he had set foot upon British ground. ThisHerculean achievement laid the corner stone of the hallowed temple ofAfrican liberty (since extended t» all British Territories.) David Sinipsvn. THE PROGRESS OF HUMANITY.
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THE LAST SCENE IN BRITISH EMANCIPATIO>J. AftfJr the 1st, Aug. 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly andforever abolished and declared unlawful throughout tha BRiTish coloniesplantations, and possessions abroad. ^ct, 3d and 4th, JVilliam IV, This noble Act was traininelled with an apprenticeship (to slavery toprepare its victims for freedom !) Antigua and Bermuda, dechned the prof-fered continuation, with, of course, the happiest results. The Legislaturesof Jamaica, Barbadoes, St. Vincent, St. Kitts, and the West Indies gen-erally, have done likewise and on Aug. 1, 1938, three-fourths of a millioncf humun being:* were, Ijy law, restored to their birth-ri^lU by Xatufe. ANTISLAVERY PUBLICATIONS. O This pamphlet by no means includes selections from all theworks extant on its theme, nor all that has been said by the au-thors quoted, from whom more ample extracts may be found inthe larger pamphlet— Liberty. With a few necessary excep.tions, the Abolitionists of the present day h