University Archives

Title: Colored American - May 2, 1840

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)

The editor explains the reasons for the negative stance that the Colored American is taking on immigration to Trinidad, Guiana, and the British West Indies.

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

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

Keywords: Britain; British; Colonial Gazette; Demerara; Guiana; immigration; Jamaica; prejudice; slaveholding; Slavery; The Reporter; Trinidad; West Indies

Publication type: editorials; Newspapers

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