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Title: Colored American - November 10, 1838
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The Vigilance Committee makes a plea to the readers of the Colored American for their help in collecting money to pay legal fees so that they can continue their work.
Description of file(s): one scanned, one columned, newspaper page
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Title: Colored American - September 4, 1841
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer related the status of a proposal made during the Troy Convention that attendees send $1 each to help the Colored American newspaper stay in publication.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Weekly Advocate - February 18, 1837
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Advocate (1837)
The editor stresses the rise in the cost of everything except the Weekly Advocate. He implies that the newspaper's cost may rise too without an increase in subscriptions.
Description of file(s): one scanned, one columned, newspaper page
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - August 10, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
One answer to the question of how to fund the civil war is offered by this editor. He notes that slaves as property are worth "two thousand millions of dollars." Once freed and working as "free labor," they would fund their own manpower and thus their own freedom. He also suggests that the land the slaves once worked should be given to them by an act of Congress.
Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)