THERE IS DEATH IN THE POT - The University of Texas at Arlington

PREFACE
The grocer takes your 6d. [for sugar], and retaining a fraction as his profit,
hands all the remainder to the wholesale dealer; the dealer hands it to the
importer; the importer to the Cuban merchant; the merchant to the
Slaveholder, to whom it becomes a premium for the maintenance of
Slavery.
–Anna Richardson, There is Death in the Pot!, c. 1850
It is a mode of anti-slavery action in which every man, woman, and child
may take a part every day, at every meal, in every article of dress they
wear and enjoy. And this silent, daily testimony would tend to keep their
anti-slavery sentiments active, out-spoke, and ever working in their
spheres of influence.
–Elihu Burritt, “Twenty Reasons for Total Abstinence from Slave-Labour
Produce,” c. 1852
To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means
to have responsibility.
–Florence Kelley, National Consumers’ League, c. 1914
In May 1840, New York businessmen Thomas McClintock and Richard P. Hunt
presented William Lloyd Garrison with four yards of olive wool suiting manufactured at
Hunt’s Waterloo Woolen Mill. Garrison planned to have the fabric made into a “free
suit” to wear at the upcoming World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London. 1 McClintock
and Hunt were anti-slavery Quakers who supported abstention from the products of slave
1 William Lloyd Garrison to Thomas McClintock, May 1, 1840, McClintock-Neeley Collection,
Women’s Rights National Park Historic Park, Seneca Falls, New York.
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