(page1).jpg.jpg "View item details")
Title: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - March 10, 1842
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer addresses those he believes have set out to malign the newspaper with "insinuations" that the editor is pro-Colonization. He believes this is just another effort to discredit the newspaper.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
(page1).jpg.jpg "View item details")
Title: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - March 17, 1842
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer expresses his ideas that emancipation is eminent. History has provided an example of how to do this so that all concern benefit. In order to avoid a civil war, now is the time to prepare for emancipation of the slaves.
Description of file(s): three scanned newspaper pages (five columns)
(page1).jpg.jpg "View item details")
Title: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - March 3, 1842
Speaker or author: M.
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer notes the inconsistencies in what those who profess to be abolitionists do and say.
Description of file(s): two scanned, two columned, newspaper pages
(page1).jpg.jpg "View item details")
Title: Provincial Freeman - March 17, 1855
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer tells his readers that the newspaper has recently been asked by some readers to stop using the word "Negro" in its columns. He agrees that this word holds a lot of negative connotation currently and prefers to use the word "Colored" since it seems a better choice.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
(page1).jpg.jpg "View item details")
Title: Weekly Advocate - February 11, 1837
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Advocate (1837)
The writer stressed the irony of a social prejudice against African Americans based on the belief that they are poor and ignorant when they are descendents of a race of enslaved people who have never been afforded the opportunities of their white fellow men and women.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page (portion missing)