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Title: Pacific Appeal - April 5, 1862
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
The writer offers his thoughts on the current situation with the Civil War which he expects will end soon. He notes that the war and the Right of Testimony are the two main issues concerning African Americans at this time.
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Title: Pacific Appeal - August 23, 1862
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
As the Civil War is taking its toll and depleting the ranks of Union soldiers, the writer asks when the northern effort will see the benefit of recruiting African American soldiers.
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - January 12, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer tells his readers that mobs of poor white people in the southern states are stirring with thoughts of secession. Secession and violence seem the only solution to poverty and hunger for the poor in the South. The writer predicts that if things don't improve in six months, the general government will have to defend itself from the mobs.
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