Title: Weekly Anglo-African - August 10, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
One answer to the question of how to fund the civil war is offered by this editor. He notes that slaves as property are worth "two thousand millions of dollars." Once freed and working as "free labor," they would fund their own manpower and thus their own freedom. He also suggests that the land the slaves once worked should be given to them by an act of Congress.
Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)
Title: Weekly Anglo-African - January 25, 1862
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer expresses renewed hope that the Civil War will result in the abolition of slavery. He notes various reasons for this feeling.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page