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Black Abolitionist Archive
Colored American - July 15, 1837
H. Ford Douglass
Colored American - September 4, 1841
Colored American - May 18, 1839
John Sella Martin
Colored American - June 30, 1838
Colored American - October 2, 1841
William Wells Brown
Weekly Anglo-African - April 13, 1861
Theodore S. Wright Titus
Samuel Ringgold Ward
Josiah Jones
Sarah Parker Remond
Anglo-African Magazine - November, 1859
Impartial Citizen - October 10, 1849
Elevator - September 29, 1865
Provincial Freeman - July 1, 1854
Provincial Freeman - February 23, 1856

From the 1820s to the Civil War, African Americans assumed prominent roles in the transatlantic struggle to abolish slavery. In contrast to the popular belief that the abolitionist crusade was driven by wealthy whites, some 300 black abolitionists were regularly involved in the antislavery movement, heightening its credibility and broadening its agenda. The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period. These important documents provide a portrait of black involvement in the anti-slavery movement; scans of these documents are provided as images and PDF files.For assistance with this collection, please contact the the University Archivist, Mara Powell at 313-993-1950 or the library reference desk at 313-993-1071. You may also email the reference desk for assistance at edesk@udmercy.edu.

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