Title: Colored American - December 25, 1841
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer provides a brief overview of recent Temperance meetings.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
Title: Colored American - May 22, 1841
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer provides an overview of two recent meetings with the freed Amistad captives to raise funds for their continued education and eventual trip home. The meetings offered audiences a cultural understanding of the "liberated Africans'" native country, as well as an example of their progress while living in this country. The hope is that a mission can be established in Africa involving these liberated captives.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
Title: Provincial Freeman - April 8, 1857
Speaker or author: Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer provides an overview of a recent lecture on the subject of slavery.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
Title: Provincial Freeman - April 8, 1857
Speaker or author: Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer condemns the Dred Scott decision and thus lends her voice to those who participated in a recent meeting regarding this in Philadelphia. She urges those African American leaders who protested this decision to immigrate to Canada.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
Title: Voice of the Fugitive - April 9, 1851
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
The writer combines a mention of recent church meetings with a brief overview of the presence of schools in the Chatham area.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
Title: Voice of the Fugitive - June 17, 1852
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
Henry Bibb, editor of the Voice of the Fugitive, announces the hiring of an assistant editor. This frees him to travel in the U.S. to look for new subscribers to the newspaper.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
Title: Weekly Anglo-African - September 3, 1859
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer discusses "Camp Meetings" for religious services in rural areas. While once mostly attended by white worshipers, there is of late a shift in the racial make-up of those who now attend.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page