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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - March 19, 1860

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer offers commentary on Horace Greeley's recent editorial in the New York Tribune in which he expresses his hatred for people of African descent. The writer points out that if Mr. Greeley feels this way then he must also hate all the progress the country has made. Without the help of those he has come to hate, this would not have been possible.

Description of file(s): one scanned, three columned, newspaper page

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

Keywords: C. B. Hatch & Co.; cotton; newspaper; Revolutionary War; slave trade; sugar; Tribune; War of 1812; West Indies

People: Attucks, Crispus; Clay, Henry; Copeland, Dr.; Greeley, Horace

Publication type: editorials; Newspapers

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