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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - January 14, 1860

Speaker or author: editor

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

The recent phenomenon of white people in the free northern states volunarily entering into slavery has created a need to develop new terminology to distinguish the free from the slave states. Previously the country was divided along a line of "free" and "slave" (north and south), now this no longer applies.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery; United States--History--19th century

Keywords: government; North; politics; South; Virginia; white slaves

People: Mason, Senator [James Murray]

Publication type: editorials; Newspapers

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