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Title: Anglo-African - September 3, 1865
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Anglo-African (1863 - 1865)
The writer responds to a note published in another newspaper saying that free African Americans will not be content to rank themselves among those newly freed slaves who that author believes do not yet have the "rudiments of civilization."
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Colored American - December 16, 1837
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The editor offers the newspaper's stance on the question of the abolition of slavery. He believes that in this matter God will make the choice ("Thy Will be done"), and the newspaper will not offer a firm stance against slavery. At the same time, he trusts that God is against this system of human bondage.
Description of file(s): one scanned, one columned, newspaper page
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Title: Colored American - March 16, 1839
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer, a clergyman, expresses his frustration with being ignored by the clergy and Christians in his neighborhood. He believes this is because he is African American and that it wouldn't happen if he were white.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Colored American - November 18, 1837
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer responds to articles he's read in other journals expressing that there is currently a return to old style religion in the U.S. He emphasizes that as long as churches participate in slave-holding, justify slavery from the pulpit, and continue to pray for the slave as if he/she is less than human, true religion is not to be found in U.S. churches.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Colored American - October 10, 1840
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer stresses the importance of political action and the exercising of voting rights in the work to abolish slavery.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Colored American - October 19, 1839
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
Brief commentary regarding taking pride in religion and using it to feel superior to others. The writer also associates this with the "sin" of Colonization.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Frederick Douglass' Paper - February 16, 1855
Speaker or author: Watkins, William J.
Newspaper or publication: Frederick Douglass' Paper (1851 - 18??)
The writer expresses his view that a good Christian makes a good politician. He emphasizes the authority of the Church in the average person's life. He notes that a man's character should be judged on his actions, not just on his words.
Description of file(s): two scanned, two columned, newspaper pages
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Title: Provincial Freeman - 1858
Speaker or author: Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
[Copyright permission granted August 2007.] The writer tells her readers that the newspaper usually remains independent in its political reporting, but that there's a vast difference between being independent and being neutral. She expresses a brief opinion of the current political atmosphere in the U.S.
Description of file(s): three scanned, two columned, handwritten pages
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Title: Provincial Freeman - January 31, 1857
Speaker or author: Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer tells readers that the newspaper takes a neutral stance in Canadian politics. Any political commentary published within the newspaper's columns are not the expressed views of the newspaper itself.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - July 2, 1851
Speaker or author: Bibb, Henry, b. 1815
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
Brief note of response to a mention in another newspaper that the Episcopal convention would not accept delegates from the Church of the Crucifixion because some of their members were of African descent.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - July 30, 1859
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer expresses what he believes should be the political view of all African Americans: to support those who "guard the rights and interests of all -- the weak and the strong."
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - October 15, 1859
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer comments on a letter received from a newspaper correspondent on the subject of slavery, politics, and racial prejudice in New York state.
Description of file(s): one scanned, three columned, newspaper page