University Archives

Title: Pacific Appeal - May 10, 1862

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)

The writer comments on the Civil War: its causes and the hope for its end. He believes that the system of slavery began this war and that emancipation will end it.

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 War; Confiscation Act; Contraband Proclamation; Democratic; emancipation; Emancipation Act; freedom; government; Oligarchy; Slavery

Publication type: editorials; Newspapers

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