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Title: Elevator - June 2, 1865
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Elevator (1865 - 18??)
The writer asks whether justice will prevail in the punishment of those who took part in the rebellion that led to the Civil War. He tells his readers that the newspaper is currently awaiting the results of the war crimes trials.
Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)
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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - September 23, 1852
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
The writer shares a passage from the written laws on slave behavior published in Kentucky and shared with Maryland and Virginia. The punishments for crimes committed by slaves in these states range from branding, whipping, removing of one hand, beheading, along with severed head and body parts displayed in public.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
Speaker or author: Johnson, William P., fl. 1839
Newspaper or publication: Non Conformist
Brief excerpt of speech detailing the help one abolitionist from New York had offered escaping slaves in their journey to Canada.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 314 word document (text and image)