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Title: Colored American - August 8, 1840
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer expresses his objections to the increasing popularity of the "Penny Press" newspapers.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Colored American - July 27, 1839
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer encourages his readers to establish a business in the silk industry.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Colored American - July 31, 1841
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer gives a brief overview of a grocery association run by African American women.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Colored American - June 1, 1839
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer encourages his readers to get involved in the silk making industry. This business can be created independently with very little capital investment.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Colored American - May 29, 1841
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer continues his series on suggestions for racial improvement. He suggests in this segment that a focus on industry, business, property ownership, and frugality are the best ways to gain wealth. But he cautions that the focus on wealth should not supercede the focus on character and morality.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Colored American - November 17, 1838
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer urges his readers to investigate the silk producing industry for possible occupations in this field.
Description of file(s): one scanned, one columned, newspaper page
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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - April 22, 1852
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
Brief overview of the Canada Mill and Mercantile Company that offers opportunity for employment and a relief from charity for fugitive slaves.
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Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
The writer tells his readers that Canada offers more opportunity for farming and mechanical trades than any sort of service jobs for those of African descent.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - February 11, 1860
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
As the country moves from its agricultural roots to an economy built on manufacturing, the writer wonders who will the South find to run the factories? If the answer is "the slaves," then this will require the slaves to be better educated. If this is to take place, the current system of slavery must change dramatically.
Description of file(s): one scanned, three columned, newspaper page
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - June 23, 1860
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer describes various ships that he believes are still participating in the slave trade. Although this practice is illegal, as long as there is money to be made, this will continue. He believes that if the transport of Africans to the U.S. for the purpose of slavery is officially declared piracy by the U.S. government, the laws will be better enforced, and the slave trade will end.
Description of file(s): two scanned, two columned, newspaper pages
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - March 10, 1860
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer offers economic advice for his readers based the tenets of Quaker and Dutch societies: be thrifty, buy land, and be diligent in holding onto what you have.
Description of file(s): one scanned, three columned, newspaper page