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Subtitle: The Difference.

Title: Elevator - August 4, 1865

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Elevator (1865 - 18??)

The writer points out the irony of pardoning Jefferson Davis for his part in the Civil War (a war that cost the lives of thousands) but hanging John Brown for his small rebellion.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: Subscribe for These Works.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - April 22, 1852

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer encourages readers to subscribe to several scientific journals.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: Our Enterprise.

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - June 9, 1860

Speaker or author: editor

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

The editor responds to an article published in another newspaper regarding African American publications such as the Anglo-African Magazine. He discusses the overall racial oppression in the U.S. that makes this type of publication difficult but at the same time extremely important.

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

Subtitle: Mistakes of the South.

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - November 5, 1859

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer tells his readers that the North holds a beacon of hope for the abolition of slavery. He asks them to remember a time before Abolitionism when the only recourse for the slave was rebellion and/or death.

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

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