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Title: Colored American - May 22, 1841
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
Brief account of a situation in Ohio where three white men went on trial for kidnapping and selling into slavery a black man. The men could not be convicted since the only witness against them was African American.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer alerts his readers to the presence in their midst of an officer from Tennessee who is tracking down a fugitive slave who escaped to Canada.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - March 16, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer comments on President Lincoln's inaugural address.
Description of file(s): two scanned, two columned, newspaper pages