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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - January 12, 1861

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer tells his readers that mobs of poor white people in the southern states are stirring with thoughts of secession. Secession and violence seem the only solution to poverty and hunger for the poor in the South. The writer predicts that if things don't improve in six months, the general government will have to defend itself from the mobs.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery; United States--History--19th century

Keywords: Charleston; secession; slave states

Publication type: editorials; Newspapers

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