Title: Weekly Anglo-African - May 11, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer provides an overview of a war meeting held in Boston. J. Sella Martin who presided over the meeting said that those African Americans who aren't willing to volunteer to fight for freedom should move to Hayti and raise cotton.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery; United States--History--19th century
Keywords: bondage; bondsmen; Boston; Civil War; Confederate States; cotton; Cottonocracy; emancipation; free labor; Hayti; meeting; Oligarchy; South; Volunteers
People: Martin, J. Sella (John Sella), b. 1832
Publication type: editorials; Newspapers