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Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer tells his readers that he's discovered from a reliable source that two African American men are attempting to get people to add their names to a paper discrediting the Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate newspaper.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - April 14, 1842
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer comments on a report written by politician John Cramer regarding extending the right to vote to African Americans.
Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)
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Title: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - April 7, 1842
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer offers commentary on the current trend towards abstinence of drinking alcohol and aligning with the ideas of the Temperance movement among African Americans.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - December 8, 1842
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The editor addresses libelous comments published in the Tocsin of Liberty newspaper.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - December 8, 1842
Speaker or author: Myers, Stephen
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The editor responds to his critics.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - February 10, 1842
Speaker or author: M.
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer encourages his readers to attend a Temperance meeting to be held that evening.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 – 18??)
The writer emphasizes the importance of education, but cautions his readers that self-education is not easy.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - February 10, 1842
Speaker or author: M.
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer offers commentary on the current condition of African Americans. He notes an improvement in literacy, morality, and general well-being.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer laments the lack of schools available to the children of the poor.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Speaker or author: B. (with remarks by M.)
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
Both writers offer commentary on the dangers of drinking intoxicating beverages. They urge their readers toward Temperance, abstinence, and morality.
Description of file(s): two scanned, two columned, newspaper pages
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Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 – 18??)
The editor thanks his readers for their continued support of this publication. He emphasizes how important newspapers such as this are to African Americans.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Speaker or author: S.
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 – 18??)
The writer alerts his readers to the fact that even though the slave trade is now illegal, slaves continue to be transported from Africa to the U.S.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer urges his readers to sign a petition to eliminate slavery in New York state. He assures them that the newspaper will continue to do all it can to assist fugitive slaves traveling to Canada.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - January 2, 1843
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer stresses the importance of education for African Americans.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The editor responds to a letter from a reader and advertiser asking to be removed from participating in the newspaper's publication. The editor assumes this letter was inspired by his comments that slaveholders must make provisions for emancipated slaves.
Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)
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Title: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - March 10, 1842
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The editor shares with his readers incidents of injustice pertaining to oppresssive laws regarding African Americans in Alabama and Maryland.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - March 10, 1842
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer addresses those he believes have set out to malign the newspaper with "insinuations" that the editor is pro-Colonization. He believes this is just another effort to discredit the newspaper.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - March 17, 1842
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer expresses his ideas that emancipation is eminent. History has provided an example of how to do this so that all concern benefit. In order to avoid a civil war, now is the time to prepare for emancipation of the slaves.
Description of file(s): three scanned newspaper pages (five columns)
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Title: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - March 17, 1842
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer comments on a recent Supreme Court decision that threatens the freedom of the free African Americans living in New York. The law seems to deny protection to African Americans in situations where they can be sold into slavery.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - March 3, 1842
Speaker or author: M.
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer notes the inconsistencies in what those who profess to be abolitionists do and say.
Description of file(s): two scanned, two columned, newspaper pages
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Title: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - March 31, 1842
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer responds to criticism he received regarding his recent editorial on the discrepancies he's noticed between what abolitionists say and what they actually do with regard to helping African Americans.
Description of file(s): three scanned, two columned, newspaper pages
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Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (1842 - 18??)
The writer addresses the concerns of his critic from the Tocsin of Liberty newspaper regarding his ideas on emancipation. The writer emphasizes the necessity of a plan for emancipating the slaves in order to avoid potential problems.
Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)