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Title: Colored American - December 25, 1841
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer relates a recent incident in which slaves aboard a ship bound to New Orleans from Virginia took over the ship and escaped to Great Britain.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Colored American - July 11, 1840
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer replies to a letter from the immigration agent for Trinidad to a member of Britain's parliament blaming the actions of abolitionists for the current racial tension in the U.S. The agent reasoned that for free African Americans, immigration was the only rational choice. The writer disagreed with his conclusions.
Description of file(s): two scanned, two columned, newspaper pages
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Title: Colored American - June 1, 1839
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer expresses his outrage over the treatment of Lewis Tappan as he dealt with his current court case.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Colored American - June 12, 1841
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
Brief account of a ship's mate who is being held in Boston on a charge of kidnapping a free African American and holding him in irons on board a Boston ship.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Colored American - May 23, 1840
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The editor gives a brief update on the events surrounding the Amistad trial.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Colored American - October 2, 1841
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer reports on Joseph John Gurney's visit to France, and gives a general overview of his efforts in the work towrads universal emancipation.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Colored American - September 26, 1840
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
Brief report on the trial of a man in England who was found guilty of selling British subjects into slavery in Texas.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Elevator - June 2, 1865
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Elevator (1865 - 18??)
The writer notes that these two homes, suggested as donations from African Americans to the widows of John Brown and Abraham Lincoln, are now presenting political issues for politicians who want to claim credit for the idea.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Elevator - May 5, 1865
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Elevator (1865 - 18??)
The writer provides a brief update on efforts to purchase a home for Mary Ann Brown, John Brown's widow.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Frederick Douglass' Paper - June 23, 1854
Speaker or author: Watkins, William J.
Newspaper or publication: Frederick Douglass' Paper (1851 - 18??)
The writer tells the story of two free African American women who were sold into slavery while traveling with their employer as maids.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Impartial Citizen - February 28, 1849
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Impartial Citizen (1849 - 1851)
The writer responds to those who believe that John P. Hale is an aboitionist by publishing an excerpt from a recent speech he made on the subject of slavery.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Provincial Freeman - November, 1857
Speaker or author: Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
[Copyright Permission granted August 2007.] The writer provides current news of insurrection activities in the southern states. While slaves are escaping in droves and heading to Canada, the tension and violent atmosphere is offering fertile ground for rumors of civil war. She also provides an update on the current political standing in the U.S.
Description of file(s): seven scanned, handwritten pages
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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 relates a recent court case regarding a default on the purchase of slaves by a free man of color.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - January 15, 1851
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
The writer reviews the case of a man captured as a fugitive slave in New York. Before the trial was over, the Marshal took it upon himself to defy the court and take the man to the slave owner who claimed the man as his run-away slave.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - June 1, 1851
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
The writer tells his readers about a recent Detroit court case in which fugitive slaves who were about to be captured were helped to escape to Canada.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - December 10, 1859
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer describes the unsettled state of the country after the incident at Harper's Ferry and the execution of John Brown. He praises John Brown's life and heroic death.
Description of file(s): two scanned, two columned, newspaper pages
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - March 2, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer relates the story of a fugitive, arrested for murder in Canada, who was freed by a Canadian court on a technicality in the reading of the Ashburton Treaty.
Description of file(s): one scanned, three columned, newspaper page
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - March 3, 1860
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer provides a follow-up to a previously published story ("Warning to Colored Seamen") regarding a British sailor of African descent who was arrested while in port in Georgia.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - March 8, 1862
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer gives brief biographical portraits of George Bancroft and John Clancey, including his opinions of these two men.
Description of file(s): two scanned, two columned, newspaper pages
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - May 12, 1860
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer relates the story of a minister in Syracuse who entered into a contract with a carpenter to build a church. The carpenter, however, was never fully paid for his work and died a broken man.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - October 29, 1859
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer briefly comments on the actions of John Brown at Harper's Ferry.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column