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Black Abolitionist Archive
Elevator - June 30, 1865
Voice of the Fugitive - January 29, 1851
Palladium of Liberty - March 27, 1844
Weekly Anglo-African - September 28, 1861
Colored American - June 30, 1838
George Thomas Downing
Frederick Douglass' Paper - April 12, 1854
Voice of the Fugitive - January 1, 1852
Colored American - November 11, 1837
Henry Bibb
Sojourner Truth
Colored American - October 31, 1840
Anglo-African - November 11, 1865
Weekly Advocate - January 21, 1837
Colored American - July 22, 1837
Weekly Anglo-African - July 30, 1859
Colored American - July 21, 1838
Robert Campbell

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.

Please contact the library reference desk at edesk@udmercy.edu  or 313-993-1071 for assistance with this collection. 

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