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Title: Weekly Advocate - January 14, 1837

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Weekly Advocate (1837)

The writer expressed the irony of a system that labeled a person "fee" when he or she is restricted by prejudice and racially based laws. Freedom for African Americans in New York in 1837 is limited and controlled.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery; United States--History--19th century

Keywords: Civil rights; employment; freedom; limitation; mockery; nominally free; prejudice

Publication type: editorials; Newspapers

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