hide Matching Documents

Browsing named entities in Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4. You can also browse the collection for Aaron M. Powell or search for Aaron M. Powell in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 5: the Jubilee.—1865. (search)
in the pulpit were some of the most eminent public men and leading abolitionists in the country. The space in front was filled with military officers, teachers, and missionaries from the North, and members of the excursion parties of the Arago and the Oceanus. The Oceanus was a steamer chartered by residents of Brooklyn, N. Y., mostly members of Mr. Beecher's church, for the excursion, and carried on this occasion 186 passengers, among whom were Joshua Leavitt, Hon. Edgar Ketchum, Aaron M. Powell, Revs. O. B. Frothingham, John W. Chadwick, A. P. Putnam, and Theo. L. Cuyler. An interesting and valuable record of this trip was subsequently published, which included a report of the speeches at the above-described meeting— The Trip of the Steamer Oceanus to Fort Sumter and Charleston, S. C., Brooklyn, 1865. Garrison was standing in the pulpit, receiving an address from a liberated slave who stood below, and whose name was Samuel Dickerson. The negro spoke in behalf of the emancipa