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Subtitle: The Cincinnati Riot.

Title: Colored American - September 18, 1841

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)

The writer describes a riot in Ohio between African Americans and a mob of white citizens that ended in death and destruction of property.

Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page

Subtitle: We Can Hardly Credit It.

Title: Colored American - September 25, 1841

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)

The writer comments on an article published in the New York Sun saying that prominent African Americans in Cincinnati, Ohio have chosen to immigrate to Liberia after the recent mob violence in Cincinnati.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: "Emancipation Promotes Insurrection."

Title: Colored Citizen - November 7, 1863

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Colored Citizen (1863 - 18??)

The writer comments on an incident in England where a minister refused to invite his congregation to a lecture on emancipation. The minister aligned with the ideas of Lord Brougham regarding emancipation which seem now to the writer to be in direct contradiction to his earlier views.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: Who are the Murderers?

Title: Frederick Douglass' Paper - June 2, 1854

Speaker or author: Watkins, William J.

Newspaper or publication: Frederick Douglass' Paper (1851 - 18??)

The writer comments on an incidence in Boston where a U.S. Marshall was murdered in an effort to prevent the return a fugitive slave to the person determined to be his owner.

Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page

Title: James W. C. Pennington

Speaker or author: Pennington, James W. C.

Newspaper or publication: National Principia

The speaker reviewed the history of mob action towards slaves and people of color in the U. S. since the 1600's. He then addressed the current mob attack of July, 1863, tracing the actions that culminated in violence. He stressed the influence of nationalism, colonization, education, politics, religion and race in the resulting riot. (This speech is combined here from two issues of the National Principal. Reference unpublished speech 27356.)

Description of file(s): PDF 20 page, 5,200 word document (text and images)

Title: William Wells Brown

Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884

Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard

The speaker notes that "...man cannot inflict upon his fellow-man a greater crime than to enslave him, for by so doing he not only injures his fellow-man, but himself." Emphasis is placed on the horrors of slavery and its contradiction to the ideals of Christianity.

Description of file(s): PDF 8 page, 2,694 word document (text and images)

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