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Title: Miss Paulyon

Speaker or author: Paulyon, Miss

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

Overview of a speech regarding one woman's experience with and escape from slavery.

Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 459 word document (text and images)

Title: Sarah M. Douglass

Speaker or author: Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882

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

Overview of speech delivered before a group of women regarding hygiene and health.

Description of file(s): PDF 2 page, 272 word document (text and images)

Subtitle: Mr. Jones

Title: Thomas Cordoza

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

Lively and interesting debate regarding the question "Which has sustained the most injustice at the hands of the American people, the American Indian or the Anglo-African?"

Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 1,099 word document (text and images)

Subtitle: Bloomerism and Slavery.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - August 12, 1852

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer briefly relates the story of a female fugitive slave who escaped slavery by dressing as a man.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: An Unfortunate Debtor.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - May 6, 1852

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer comments on the story of a free African American man who purchased his wife to free her from slavery. When this man fell into debt, however, his wife and children were seized as part of his property and sold to repay his debts. The writer questions the definition of freedom in cases like this.

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

Subtitle: Ignipotent Logic.

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - April 20, 1861

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer responds angrily to a notice published in another newspaper that offers a reward for the return of an escaped female slave who ran away even though her ankles were chained together.

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

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