Narrator Jim Vance presents a very short history of the Twelfth Baptist Church of Boston and the life of Reverend Leonard Grimes. The church's and reverend's work with the Underground Railroad and antislavery movement, and after the passing of Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 are highlighted. The arrests of Shadrach and Anthony Burns are also addressed. Members of the Twelfth Baptist Church wanted the right to bear arms as part of the Union Forces during the Civil War; William L. Garrison and Frederick Douglass argued for this right.
Narration only. Might be part of Climbing Jacob's Ladder Audiovisual Records. Production elements: AV003356 and AV003428 [narration]. AV003356: begins at 000115 [first minute of recording related to The Times of Richard Allen]. Undated.
Biographical / Historical:
Twelfth Baptist Church of Boston might be related to the Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Rise of Black Churches in Eastern American Cities, 1740 - 1877 exhibition which explored the growth and central role of African American churches during the 18th- and 19th-centuries in the eastern United States: Boston, Savannah, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Richmond. The exhibition was organized by the Anacostia Museum and held there from October 1987 to October 1988.;Twelfth Baptist Church of Boston was formed by a small group of dissentients who split from the First African Baptist Church in 1848. It served as an anti-slavery meetinghouse, and provided refuge and spiritual guidance to free blacks and fugitive slaves. Twelfth Baptist Church of Boston was also known as the Fugitives Church or the Church of the Fugitive Slave.;Reverend Leonard Grimes was pastor of the Twelfth Baptist Church of Boston from 1848 to 1874. Born to free parents in Leesburg, Virginia, Grimes first became involved in the antislavery movement through his work with the Underground Railroad in Washington, D.C.
Local Numbers:
ACMA AV003428
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Mr. Corneiro discusses his apprenticeship to a cabinet maker, his time with the West Indian Company, his work as a machinist, float making for Carnival and his manufacture of miniature furniture.
Local Numbers:
FP-1990-CT-0476
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32 of 32
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Saint Thomas (V.I.), Virgin Islands of the United States, March 5, 1990.
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Lemba, el esclavo rebelde del Caribe : aguerrido esclavo de la Isla Española símbolo de la lucha por la liberación de los negros esclavos en Santo Domingo durante la colonización de la isla por España en el siglo XV / Libio Amaury Matos
A son of Africa [videorecording] : the slave narrative of Olaudah Equiano / Aimimage Productions for the BBC ; producer, Hugh Williams ; director, Alrick Riley ; writer, Danny Padmore
Title:
Slave narrative of Olaudah Equiano
Author:
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The Life of John Brown, no. 12: John Brown's victory at Black Jack drove those proslavery to new fury and those who were anti-slavery to new efforts [painting] / (photographed by Peter A. Juley & Son)
