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Subtitle: Timely Words.

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - April 6, 1861

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)

The writer presents a translation of an article on immigration published in a French newspaper in Hayti. The article urges African Americans to immigrate to Hayti.

Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)

Subtitle: From Hayti.

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - February 9, 1861

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)

The writer comments on the news from Hayti published in a Haytian newspaper he recently received.

Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page

Subtitle: Hayti and Emigration.

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - March 23, 1861

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)

The writer tells his readers that the continued discussion on immigration to Hayti will be set aside for the time being. The next issue of the newspaper will be devoted to the publication of the "History of the Revolutions of Hayti."

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Title: William Wells Brown

Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884

Newspaper or publication: Anti-Slavery Bugle

The speaker asked for all present to agree that the government had become a conspiracy against freedom. He read an excerpt from a southern newspaper demonstrating the fear of emancipated slaves that the southern states held, and that they used to continue slavery there. He expressed that recent government legislation was compelling those who were fighting for emancipation to take a more radical approach.

Description of file(s): PDF 5 page, 1,438 word document (text and images)

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