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Title: Elevator - December 8, 1865
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Elevator (1865 - 18??)
The writer gives a brief review of a lecture regarding establishing trade relations with Japan.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - June 30, 1860
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer notes the prejudice expressed in the U.S. against the newly arrived Japanese immigrants. But while the general population is responding to the Japanese as "colored foreigners" and treating them negatively, government officials are responding to them as "novel" and unique. The writer suspects the difference is based in money and class status.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page