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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1851
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
The writer responds to a law enforced in some slave states that requires free black seamen (in this case British subjects) to be held in jails while ships are in their ports.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - December 31, 1859
Speaker or author: Allan A. Lane to H[enry] W[ard] Beecher
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The editor shares a warning received from a reliable source that sailors of African descent are not safe on ships in southern ports. He included the story of a British sailor who was found on a ship docked in Georgia and subsequently sold into slavery.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - March 3, 1860
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer provides a follow-up to a previously published story ("Warning to Colored Seamen") regarding a British sailor of African descent who was arrested while in port in Georgia.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page