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Title: Colored American - July 13, 1839
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer tells his readers that he is about to journey west from Massachusetts to promote the Colored American newspaper and connect with influence friends.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Colored American - September 25, 1841
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer comments on an article published in the New York Sun saying that prominent African Americans in Cincinnati, Ohio have chosen to immigrate to Liberia after the recent mob violence in Cincinnati.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
Speaker or author: Nickens, Owen B.
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Report from Liberator newspaper describes a speech given during celebration activities on the anniversary of the emancipation of slavery in New York state.
Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 889 word document (text and images)
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Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The editor reports on a story published in another newspaper regarding an incidence when a fugitive female slave cut the throats of her children when she knew capture was imminent.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Provincial Freeman - November 3, 1855
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The editor comments on the recent demise of the Herald of Freedom newspaper.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1852
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
Brief commentary on a recent convention held in Cincinnati, Ohio. The African American population of that state agreed to stay in the U.S. rather than migrate to Canada.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - May 20, 1852
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
The writer points out that the statistical information on African Americans living in Ohio directly contradicts the beliefs espoused by Colonizationists that African Americans are unable to care for themselves.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - October 7, 1852
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
The writer comments on James G. Birney's endorsement of the American Colonization Society's efforts to colonize Liberia.
Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - January 7, 1860
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
Brief commentary on a recent event in Kentucky in which 36 people were asked to leave the state because of their abolitionists' views.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page