University Archives

Title: Colored American - June 22, 1839

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)

The writer comments on the influence of the Church in continuing the system of slavery.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Title: Elevator - May 19, 1865

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Elevator (1865 - 18??)

Now that the nation has mourned the death of Abraham Lincoln the focus of American attention turns to Reconstruction and the question of rights for the newly freed slaves.

Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)

Title: Elevator - May 19, 1865

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Elevator (1865 - 18??)

The writer tells his readers that African Americans have three main duties to perform to participate as good U. S. citizens: social (to realize quality in their own individual lives), civil, and political. He expands a bit on each, and tells his readers he will address the moral and religious duties in another issue.

Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - January 15, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

The writer demonstrates the injustice of laws based on racial prejudice that are practiced in some U. S. states. These laws stand in stark contradiction to the precepts of the U. S. Constitution.

Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - May 11, 1861

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)

The writer raises the question of how to "make ourselves a distinct people and a homogeneous nation?" He offers some comments on the way racial relationships are currently dealt with, and the overall social condition of the time.

Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)