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Subtitle: How to Meet It.

Title: Weekly Anglo-African - April 20, 1861

Speaker or author: editor

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

The writer tells his readers that despite notions to the contrary, the distinction between races "rests not upon ethnological distinctions, upon the shape of a bone, the color of the skin, or the quality of the hair; but upon the common consanguinity found in the equal participation of the pleasures and pains, the joys and sorrows, of our spiritual natures."

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

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

Keywords: Africa; heathen; prejudice; race

People: Adams, Nehemiah; De Bow, Mr.; Seabury, Rev. Dr.; Spratt, Mr.; Stephens, Ixion; Van Evrie, Dr.

Publication type: editorials; Newspapers

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