University Archives

Title: Impartial Citizen - March 28, 1849

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Impartial Citizen (1849 - 1851)

The writer comments on a fight between Mr. Meade and Mr. Giddings. This fight is representational of the building tensions between the northern and southern factions in the political argument over slavery.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery; United States--History--19th century

Keywords: Northerners; politics; slaveholders; Southerners

People: Giddings, Joshua R.; Meade, Richard K.

Publication type: editorials; Newspapers

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