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Title: Anglo-African Magazine - December, 1859
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Anglo-African Magazine (1859 - 1860)
Detailed confession of Nat Turner as he was being held in prison shortly after capture. The editor compares Nat Turner's actions with those of John Brown's. Included is a list of African Americans (both slaves and free) who were charged in the conspiracy.
Description of file(s): seven scanned magazine pages (23 columns)
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Title: Anglo-African Magazine - November, 1859
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Anglo-African Magazine (1859 - 1860)
Detailed account of the raid on Harper's Ferry by John Brown published originally in the Baltimore American and New York Herald. Included is an interview with John Brown shortly after his capture, and a brief account of his statements before the Grand Jury before his trial.
Description of file(s): eight scanned magazine pages (14 columns)
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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - August 27, 1851
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
The writer shares provisions recently added to the state Constitution of Virginia. The new Constitution attempts to override any federal emancipation law that may free slaves in that state.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - April 27, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer eloquently rejoices in the onslaught of the civil war that is beginning in Virginia, a state he believes is the birth place of slavery.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - April 6, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer tells his readers that a law has just been passed in Virginia that enslaves all previously free people of color in that state.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - January 7, 1860
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
John Brown's actions at Harper's Ferry have stirred a Legislative Committee in Virginia to generate an "elaborate report" that creates what the writer believes is a general antagonistic political atmosphere between the North and the South.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - May 11, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
Brief commentary on a story published in another newspaper regarding sailors, rescued from a wrecked ship, who were thrown into prison in Virginia and threatened with starvation if they didn't agree to fight for the South. The writer urges all African Americans to cooperate with the Northern forces in this fight for freedom.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - October 29, 1859
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
In light of recent events at Harper's Ferry, the writer encourages his readers to attend the upcoming lecture on Nat Turner whose heroic actions he compares with John Brown's.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column