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Black Abolitionist Archive
Provincial Freeman - February 2, 1856
Weekly Anglo-African - May 4, 1861
Provincial Freeman - January 3, 1857
Charles Bennet Ray
Anglo-African Magazine - December, 1859
William L. Douglass
William Wells Brown
Aliened American - April 9, 1853
Voice of the Fugitive - July 30, 1851
Sarah Parker Remond
Henry Highland Garnet
Provincial Freeman - June 14, 1856
Frederick Douglass' Paper - December 16, 1853
Pacific Appeal - September 27, 1862
Abner H. Francis
Voice of the Fugitive - January 1, 1851
Anglo-African Magazine - September, 1859
Elevator - October 27, 1865

From the 1820s to the Civil War, African Americans assumed prominent roles in the transatlantic struggle to abolish slavery. In contrast to the popular belief that the abolitionist crusade was driven by wealthy whites, some 300 black abolitionists were regularly involved in the antislavery movement, heightening its credibility and broadening its agenda. The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period. These important documents provide a portrait of black involvement in the anti-slavery movement; scans of these documents are provided as images and PDF files.For assistance with this collection, please contact the the University Archivist, Mara Powell at 313-993-1950 or the library reference desk at 313-993-1071. You may also email the reference desk for assistance at edesk@udmercy.edu.

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