University Archives

Title: Weekly Advocate - January 21, 1837

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Weekly Advocate (1837)

The writer discussed new legislation in Congress that suggested that any "petition, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers relating to slavery or the abolition of slavery" be left un-addressed, unread, and unacknowledged.

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

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

Keywords: Civil rights; Congress; Constitution; freedom; law; liberty; politics; resolution

Publication type: editorials; Newspapers

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