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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - January 21, 1860

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer re-writes a popular play and uses it as an allegory of the current state of the "peculiar institution" of slavery that is dividing the country.

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

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

Keywords: abolition; Irish; North; Octoroon; peculiar institution; South; theater

People: Crangale, Mr.; Gray, Mr.; Turley, Mr.

Publication type: editorials; Newspapers

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