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Title: Stephen Pembroke

Speaker or author: Pembroke, Stephen

Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle

Anecdotal speech given regarding the speaker's experience with slavery and subsequent escape.

Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 702 word document (text and images)

Subtitle: Enslaving of British Subjects.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

The writer responds to a law enforced in some slave states that requires free black seamen (in this case British subjects) to be held in jails while ships are in their ports.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: Western States and Slavery.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - January 1, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

The editor provides brief snippets of news from several states.

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

Subtitle: The Ottawa Rescuers.

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - January 14, 1860

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer relates the story of a fugitive slave captured in Illinois who was rescued by a band of citizens and helped to cross the border into Canada.

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

Subtitle: A Cry for the Needy.

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - September 17, 1859

Speaker or author: editor

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

An appeal for help written by four men accused of aiding a fugitive slave is published by the newspaper. The writer comments on this situation and asks his readers to respond as their hearts direct.

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

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