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Title: Colored American - December 25, 1841
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer provides a brief overview of recent Temperance meetings.
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Title: Colored American - May 1, 1841
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer comments on an upcoming meeting to determine what to do to help the Amistad captives while they remain in this country.
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Title: Colored American - May 22, 1841
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer provides an overview of two recent meetings with the freed Amistad captives to raise funds for their continued education and eventual trip home. The meetings offered audiences a cultural understanding of the "liberated Africans'" native country, as well as an example of their progress while living in this country. The hope is that a mission can be established in Africa involving these liberated captives.
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Title: Colored American - October 9, 1841
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer provides an update on the status of the Amistad captives who are set to return to Africa in the fall. He asks for donations to help fund the journey. Plans include missionaries who will accompany them and help establish a mission in their honor in Africa.
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Title: Provincial Freeman - April 8, 1857
Speaker or author: Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer provides an overview of a recent lecture on the subject of slavery.
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Title: Provincial Freeman - April 8, 1857
Speaker or author: Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer condemns the Dred Scott decision and thus lends her voice to those who participated in a recent meeting regarding this in Philadelphia. She urges those African American leaders who protested this decision to immigrate to Canada.
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Title: Provincial Freeman - October 14, 1854
Speaker or author: C.
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer responds to an article published in another newspaper relating the story of 56 liberated slaves. Funds are being raised by Colonizationists who are organizing transportation to send these people to Liberia. The writer wonders why this money couldn't be used to purchase land in Canada and settle these people there instead.
Description of file(s): two scanned, two columned, newspaper pages
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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - April 9, 1851
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
The writer combines a mention of recent church meetings with a brief overview of the presence of schools in the Chatham area.
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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - June 17, 1852
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
Henry Bibb, editor of the Voice of the Fugitive, announces the hiring of an assistant editor. This frees him to travel in the U.S. to look for new subscribers to the newspaper.
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - September 3, 1859
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer discusses "Camp Meetings" for religious services in rural areas. While once mostly attended by white worshipers, there is of late a shift in the racial make-up of those who now attend.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page