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Subtitle: Conviction of Captain Smith.

Title: Provincial Freeman - November 25, 1854

Speaker or author: S.

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The writer comments on the recent conviction of slave trader, Captain James Smith, for piracy.

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

Title: Robert Purvis

Speaker or author: Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898

Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Historical Society of Pennsylvania -- Gardiner Collection

Eulogy for James Forten with an emphasis on his life accomplishments and character.

Description of file(s): PDF 18 page, 5,392 word document (text and images)

Title: Stephen H. Gloucester

Speaker or author: Gloucester, Stephen H.

Newspaper or publication: Presscopy -- Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets

Eulogy given regarding the life and character of James Forten, Sr.

Description of file(s): PDF 24 page, 5,795 word document (text and images)

Subtitle: Enslaving of British Subjects.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

The writer responds to a law enforced in some slave states that requires free black seamen (in this case British subjects) to be held in jails while ships are in their ports.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: Arrival of Free Colored People from South Carolina.

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - January 26, 1861

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)

As Southern states secede from the Union, free African Americans from South Carolina are arriving in New York. Free people of color are leaving the south as fast as they can fearing they will lose their freedom if they stay.

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

Subtitle: Virginia Hospitality.

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - May 11, 1861

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)

Brief commentary on a story published in another newspaper regarding sailors, rescued from a wrecked ship, who were thrown into prison in Virginia and threatened with starvation if they didn't agree to fight for the South. The writer urges all African Americans to cooperate with the Northern forces in this fight for freedom.

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

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