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Subtitle: Colored Citizens.
Title: Pacific Appeal - October 11, 1862
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
The writer comments on the Dred Scott case. He focuses on the dissent of Justice Curtis.
Description of file(s): three scanned, two columned, newspaper pages
Title: William Wells Brown
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Eloquent, knowledgable and intelligent rebuttal to a speech given by William Lowndes Yancey encouraging sucession, state's rights, and a continuation of slavery. Mr. Yancey, as a member of the "fire-eaters" (radical sucessionists) supported and encouraged events that lead up to the Civil War.
Description of file(s): PDF 13 page, 3,710 word document (text and images)