Title: Impartial Citizen - June 12, 1850
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Impartial Citizen (1849 - 1851)
The writer explains to his readers a law currently before the Senate saying that if a free born African American is accused of being an escaped slave, he must prove his freeborn status in the state of his accuser, not the state of his birth.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
Title: Pacific Appeal - February 28, 1863
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
The writer comments on peace initiatives proposed by some states as the country prepares for the inevitable end of the Civil War.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer briefly points out one important result of electing Abraham Lincoln as president. He believes if Lincoln hadn't been elected, the slave trade would have spread across the country and become a "flourishing commerce."
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column