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Subtitle: Batchelder's Widow.
Title: Frederick Douglass' Paper - June 30, 1854
Speaker or author: Watkins, William J.
Newspaper or publication: Frederick Douglass' Paper (1851 - 18??)
The writer notes with irony the amount of money being sent to the widow of James Batchelder, a U.S. Marshal who was killed trying to stop the failed rescue of fugitive Anthony Burns.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
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Subtitle: Dr. Pennington's Brothers Carried Back.
Title: Provincial Freeman - June 3, 1854
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer questions the motivation of free African Americans to remain in the U.S. when the atmosphere of prejudice and the fight for emancipation seems so overwhelming.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column