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Black Abolitionist Archive
Weekly Anglo-African - March 17, 1860
Voice of the Fugitive - April 23, 1851
Pacific Appeal - November 7, 1863
Colored American - March 15, 1838
Voice of the Fugitive - December 3, 1851
William Wells Brown
Anglo-African - September 3, 1865
Francis Ellen Watkins Harper
Pacific Appeal - October 10, 1863
Samuel H. Davis
Colored American - August 11, 1838
Voice of the Fugitive June 3, 1852
Weekly Anglo-African - August 10, 1861
Leonard A. Grimes
Provincial Freeman - April 22, 1854

From the 1820s to the Civil War, African Americans assumed prominent roles in the transatlantic struggle to abolish slavery. In contrast to the popular belief that the abolitionist crusade was driven by wealthy whites, some 300 black abolitionists were regularly involved in the antislavery movement, heightening its credibility and broadening its agenda. The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period. These important documents provide a portrait of black involvement in the anti-slavery movement; scans of these documents are provided as images and PDF files.For assistance with this collection, please contact the the University Archivist, Mara Powell at 313-993-1950 or the library reference desk at 313-993-1071. You may also email the reference desk for assistance at edesk@udmercy.edu.

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