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Title: Elevator - October 20, 1865

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Elevator (1865 - 18??)

The writer discusses the upcoming convention. He urges the convention delegates to collect demographic information to present at the convention to make a solid case for equality and civil rights. He hopes these issues will successfully addressed.

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

Title: Elevator - October 6, 1865

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Elevator (1865 - 18??)

The editor describes a rowdy meeting to elect convention delegates that he describes as a "great farce."

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

Title: Elevator - September 29, 1865

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Elevator (1865 - 18??)

The editor defends the newspaper from allegations of wrong doing regarding reporting the election of convention delegates.

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

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - August 27, 1851

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

The writer encourages election of local delegates to attend the upcoming convention in Toronto.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - October 22, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

Brief account of a recent convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - January 7, 1860

Speaker or author: editor

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

John Brown's actions at Harper's Ferry have stirred a Legislative Committee in Virginia to generate an "elaborate report" that creates what the writer believes is a general antagonistic political atmosphere between the North and the South.

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