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Subtitle: Suppressed Letter.

Title: Colored American - August 29, 1840

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)

The editor explains the reasons why a letter sent to the newspaper for publication was not published.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Title: Provincial Freeman - April 18, 1857

Speaker or author: Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The writer responds briefly to a letter the newspaper received from the Refugees Home. The letter indicates the humiliating treatment in the name of charity that C. C. Foote's is providing there. Fugitives arriving in Canada are looking for freedom and equality, not pity and handouts.

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

Subtitle: Editorial Correspondence No. 2.

Title: Provincial Freeman - August 8, 1857

Speaker or author: Shadd, Isaac D.

Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)

The writer tells of his travels on a lecture journey across the U.S. and parts of Canada.

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

Subtitle: Voice of the Anti-Slavery Society of Toronto.

Title: Voice of the Fugitive - November 18, 1852

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer calls his readers attentions to an article appearing in another page of the newspaper which is particularly representative of anti-slavery sentiments in Canada.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: Douglass on Wise.

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - December 31, 1859

Speaker or author: editor

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

Brief commentary on Governor Wise's reaction to a letter he received from Frederick Douglass.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subtitle: Talk and Work.

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - March 23, 1861

Speaker or author: editor

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

This is the first mention of civil war in the editorials for this newspaper. The writer comments on a letter to the editor of the New York Tribune suggesting that to encourage emancipation, slave holders should be compensated for their slaves.

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

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