John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection..

Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none..

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was a….

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now..

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their p….

In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a Preside….

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over tw….

And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, o….

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' ….

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not re….

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the….

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school..

THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died..

In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 ….

Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves,….

My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelph….