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Title: Colored American - February 16, 1839
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer offers comments on Henry Clay's recent speech. The writer believes that Henry Clay's perception of slavery is based upon his upbringing and experience with the system of slavery in the south.
Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)
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Title: Colored American - May 18, 1839
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer offers an anecdote as an ironic example of Henry Clay's idea that some day the races would merge.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper page
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Title: Colored American - May 30, 1840
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer discusses the recent legal suit involving an African American man who is fined for operating a push cart without a license. Yet because he is African American, the city refused to issue him a license.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Impartial Citizen - June 27, 1849
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Impartial Citizen (1849 - 1851)
Brief note regarding a comment made by Frederick Douglass about a letter written by Henry Highland Garnet.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: National Reformer - February, 1839
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: National Reformer (1838 - 1839)
The writer comments on the recent speeches of Henry Clay and Thomas Moore.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Palladium of Liberty - May 29, 1844
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Palladium of Liberty (1843 - 1844)
The writer comments on the educational promises of Congressman Henry A. Wise of Virginia.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - July 2, 1851
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
Open letter to Henry Clay responding to his "scheme" of Colonization, and the continuation of slavery.
Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - December 31, 1859
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
Brief commentary on Governor Wise's reaction to a letter he received from Frederick Douglass.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - December 31, 1859
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
Political tensions grow between the North and the South. The writer includes quoted threats from Virginia's Governor Wise to hang Frederick Douglass and drive the abolitionists out of the Union (or create a Confederacy).
Description of file(s): one scanned, three columned, newspaper page
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - May 4, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer comments on the American Anti-Slavery Society's decision to postpone their annual meeting.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page