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Subtitle: The Sumner Outrage &c.

Title: Provincial Freeman - June 7, 1856

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The writer comments on the growing political tension between the North and the South in the U.S.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: The Threatening Storm.

Title: Provincial Freeman - March 8, 1856

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The editor draws similarities between the recent war in Russia and the human "war" with slavery. He suggests too that if Great Britain is inclined to go to war with the United States it should begin at once.

Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)

Subtitle: United States and Canada -- a Parallel.

Title: Provincial Freeman - October 13, 1855

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The author makes a comparison between the authority in the U.S. government of the "slave power," and the similar authority the Canadian government has given to the Roman Catholic Church.

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

Title: William G. Hamilton

Speaker or author: William G. Hamilton

Newspaper or publication: Emancipator

Address delivered before the Annual Convention of the Free People of Color of the United States involving issues of emancipation and colonization of Africa.

Description of file(s): PDF 7 page, 1,556 word document (text and images)

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