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Title: Colored American - June 1, 1839
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer suggests that philanthropists donate money to establish a "market garden" that will help train African American men to start their own business in the silk industry.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Colored American - May 27, 1837
Speaker or author: Sears, Robert
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
Brief anecdote designed to persuade the reader to refrain from drinking alcohol.
Description of file(s): one scanned, one columned, newspaper page
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Title: Colored American - October 20, 1838
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer suggests that those in favor of colonization who believe that African Americans are doomed to a state of lower-caste misery in the U.S. should take a good look at the progress being made in Canada among those who have immigrated there.
Description of file(s): one scanned, one columned, newspaper page
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Title: Colored American - September 22, 1838
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer expresses the irony of a country founded on principles of freedom that continues to include the system of slavery in its southern states.
Description of file(s): one scanned, one columned, newspaper page
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Title: Colored American - September 29, 1838
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer shares a letter he received from a former slave describing his experiences. The focus is mostly on how prejudice and intolerance have effected religious services in the southern states.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Pacific Appeal - June 7, 1862
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
The writer expresses his views on manifesting positive change in the condition of the lives of African Americans through organization, petitioning, and union of purpose.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Weekly Advocate - January 7, 1837
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Advocate (1837)
Letter to the editor questioning the moral motives of the newspaper. The editor's reply expresses the view that the Weekly Advocate does not encourage vice and immoral actions.
Description of file(s): two scanned, two columned, newspaper pages
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - February 25, 1860
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer provides a brief overview of the political opinions on slavery espoused by the major presidential hopefuls in the upcoming election.
Description of file(s): one scanned, three columned, newspaper page
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - January 11, 1862
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer relates a rumor that a surprise attack was foiled by a traitor in the upper ranks of the Union army.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - March 10, 1860
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer offers economic advice for his readers based the tenets of Quaker and Dutch societies: be thrifty, buy land, and be diligent in holding onto what you have.
Description of file(s): one scanned, three columned, newspaper page
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - March 23, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
This is the first mention of civil war in the editorials for this newspaper. The writer comments on a letter to the editor of the New York Tribune suggesting that to encourage emancipation, slave holders should be compensated for their slaves.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - May 11, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer tells his readers that "war is a swift educator." He agrees with Captain John Brown, Jr. who tells his followers that the hardest thing to learn for those who yearn for freedom is to wait.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page