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Subtitle: To Our Old Masters. No. 2.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

The writer argues against the current notion that people of African descent are mentally inferior to other races. This idea is being used to justify slavery, and the writer argues that it is based on false reasoning.

Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)

Subtitle: The Press and the Pulpit.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

The writer comments on the way the Church and the press have both contributed to the continuation of slavery and racial prejudice.

Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page

Subtitle: Temperance in Canada.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

Brief overview of a monthly temperance meeting in Sandwich township.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: Enslaving of British Subjects.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

The writer responds to a law enforced in some slave states that requires free black seamen (in this case British subjects) to be held in jails while ships are in their ports.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: Union Sabbath School.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

The writer announces the establishment of the Union Sabbath School which has just opened in Sandwich.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: Colored Settlements.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

Reprint of a January 29th editorial reporting on the status of the Canadian settlement of Sandwich. In this copy, the writer adds the names of land agents.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: New Slave Market.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

The writer informs his readers that the Mormons are now holding slaves and condoning slavery.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: Elgin Settlement.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

Brief account of the current status of the Elgin Settlement in Canada West.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: A Warning Voice To the Fugitives from Slavery Who are Yet Tarrying in the United States.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

The writer urges fugitives who may still be lingering in the U.S. to continue on to Canada. He tells them that there is no safe place for them in the U.S.

Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

Brief notice regarding the settlement of New Canaan near Colchester township.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: Just from Slavery.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

The writer tells the story of a captured fugitive slave who picked the lock on the chain that held him and escaped while his captors were drinking at a local pub.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

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