Subtitle: A Convention.
Title: Colored American - May 2, 1840
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer discusses reasons for forming a state convention of African Americans to discuss pressing issues such as suffrage and civil rights.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; Antislavery movements--United States; Civil rights; Slavery; United States--History--19th century
Keywords: Civil rights; community; elevation; politics; suffrage
Publication type: editorials; Newspapers