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Title: Weekly Advocate - February 11, 1837
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Advocate (1837)
The writer stressed the irony of a social prejudice against African Americans based on the belief that they are poor and ignorant when they are descendents of a race of enslaved people who have never been afforded the opportunities of their white fellow men and women.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page (portion missing)
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
The speaker said that the system of slavery degrades the slaveholder as well as the slave. He noted several examples of the injustices of slavery. (Includes MP3 audio file.)
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 295 word document (text and image)