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Black Abolitionist Archive
Pacific Appeal - July 19, 1862
Weekly Anglo-African - March 8, 1862
Charles Hughes Langston
Weekly Anglo-African - February 2, 1861
Colored American - October 5, 1839
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
William Still
Pacific Appeal - June 6, 1863
Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
Colored American - July 27, 1839
Provincial Freeman - October 6, 1855
Pacific Appeal - April 5, 1862
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Weekly Anglo-African - August 10, 1861
Colored American - July 21, 1838
Colored American - September 29, 1838
Frederick Douglass' Paper - February 10, 1854
Voice of the Fugitive - September 9, 1852

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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