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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - March 1, 1862
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
Nathaniel Gordon was the only American hung for being engaged in the slave trade. The editor comments on his actions, trial, and execution.
Description of file(s): two scanned, two columned, newspaper pages
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - March 2, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer relates the story of a fugitive, arrested for murder in Canada, who was freed by a Canadian court on a technicality in the reading of the Ashburton Treaty.
Description of file(s): one scanned, three columned, newspaper page
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - March 9, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer reviews a recent book on the definition of slavery and of slaves as human beings. He compares this with another book published about the same time. The focus is on the question of whether a slave owner has the right to take the life of a slave when he chooses.
Description of file(s): two scanned, three columned, newspaper pages