Primary Sources used in Soski's Essay
Frederick Douglass, attributed to Elisha Hammond, c. 1844.
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Online Sources
The following are some of the primary sources used in Soskis’s essay. They are organized by author, chronologically. Clicking on the “BREAK FRAMES” link will open the document in a separate window.
Frederick Douglass
September 29, 1845: Letter to William Lloyd Garrison
October 1, 1845: Irish Christians and Non-Fellowship with Man-Stealers
October 14, 1845: My Experience and My Mission to Great Britain
October 14, 1845: I Am Here to Spread Light on American Slavery
October 20, 1845: Intemperance and Slavery
October 23, 1845: American Prejudice Against Color
November 10, 1845: Slavery and America’s Bastard Republicanism
December 1, 1845: Letter to Thurlow Weed
December 5, 1845: The Cambria Riot, My Slave Experience, and My Irish Mission
December 23, 1845: Baptists, Congregationalists, the Free Church, and Slavery
January 1, 1846: Letter to William Lloyd Garrison
January 2, 1846: Texas, Slavery, and American Prosperity
January 15, 1846: An Account of American Slavery
January 27, 1846: Letter to William Lloyd Garrison
January 29, 1846: Letter to Francis Jackson
January 30, 1846: The Free Church of Scotland and American Slavery
February 10, 1846: Letter to Richard D. Webb
February 12, 1846: The Free Church Connection With the Slave Church
February 18, 1846: Intemperance Viewed in Connection With Slavery
February 26, 1846: Letter to William Lloyd Garrison
March 10, 1846: Charges and Defense of the Free Church
March 17, 1846: International Moral Force Can Destroy Slavery
March 19, 1846: The Free States, Slavery, and the Sin of the Free Church
March 20, 1846: The Relation of the Free Church to the Slave Church
March 24, 1846: A Few Facts and Personal Observations of Slavery
March 30, 1846: Temperance and Anti-Slavery
April 15, 1846: Letter to Horace Greeley
April 16, 1846: Letter to William Lloyd Garrison
April 17, 1846: British Influence on the Abolition Movement in America
April 25, 1846: Send Back the Blood-Stained Money
May 18, 1846: Emancipation is an Individual, a National, and an International Responsibility
May 19, 1846: My Opposition to War
May 22, 1846: American Slavery, American Religion, and the Free Church of Scotland
May 23, 1846: Letter to William Lloyd Garrison
July 30, 1846: Letter to William A. White
August 25, 1846: Slavery As It Now Exists in the United States
August 28, 1846: A Call for the British Nation to Testify Against Slavery
August 31, 1846: American Slavery and Britain’s Rebuke of Man-Stealers
September 1, 1846: The Horrors of Slavery and England’s Duty to Free the Bondsman
September 11, 1846: A Simple Tale of American Slavery
September 14, 1846: Slavery in the Pulpit of the Evangelical Alliance
December 22, 1846: Letter to Henry C. Wright
December 23, 1846: England Should Lead the Cause of Emancipation
February 2, 1847: The Skin Aristocracy in America
March 30, 1847: Farewell to the British People
April 1, 1847: Monarchies and Freedom, Republics and Slavery
April 3, 1847: Letter to the Editor of the London Times
May 11, 1847: Country, Conscience, and the Anti-Slavery Cause
December 3, 1847: Our Paper and Its Prospects
September 3, 1848: Letter to Thomas Auld
June 4, 1851: Letter to Gerrit Smith
William Lloyd Garrison
April 1, 1847: Letter to Elizabeth Pease
August 16, 1847: Letter to Helen E. Garrison
October 20, 1847: Letter to Helen E. Garrison