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Subtitle: Jim Crow.
Title: Colored American - September 15, 1838
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer responds to an inquiry asking whether Thomas Rice, creator of the minstrel character "Jim Crow," was of mixed race.
Description of file(s): one scanned, one columned, newspaper page
Title: William Wells Brown
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Anecdotal speech with numerous examples illustrating the hardships and irrationality of slavery. The speaker emphasized the prevalence of amalgamation.
Description of file(s): PDF 12 page, 3,489 word document (text and images)