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Title: Colored American - May 8, 1841
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
Brief announcement of upcoming meetings to celebrate the anniversaries of two major anti-slavery societies. (Included is a very brief mention of a meeting of the "liberated Africans," which refers to the Amistad captives.)
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - May 21, 1851
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
Very brief overview of a lecture delivered by Henry Ward Beecher in New York.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - May 19, 1860
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer discusses the current situation with race relations in the social structure. He's noticed how the overall social focus is on determining human worth by race. If African Americans are willing to agree with this system and degrade themselves to conform to it, the writer predicts a dire future for mankind.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page