Title: Pacific Appeal - April 5, 1862
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
The writer comments on various newspapers who help sign a petition for African Americans to enjoy "the right of oath" or the right to give testimony. He emphasizes one newspaper in particular that is against this idea.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
Title: Weekly Anglo-African - April 20, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer tells his readers that despite notions to the contrary, the distinction between races "rests not upon ethnological distinctions, upon the shape of a bone, the color of the skin, or the quality of the hair; but upon the common consanguinity found in the equal participation of the pleasures and pains, the joys and sorrows, of our spiritual natures."
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column