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Black Abolitionist Archive
Colored American - May 6, 1837
Voice of the Fugitive - June 1, 1851
Pacific Appeal - October 4, 1862
Charles Bennet Ray
Voice of the Fugitive - May 6, 1852
Pacific Appeal - March 14, 1863
Charles Lenox Remond
J. W. C. Pennington
Black Republican - April 15, 1865
Robert Purvis
Colored American - March 16, 1839
William Wells Brown
Palladium of Liberty - June 12, 1844
Anglo-African Magazine - September, 1859
Robert Purvis
Colored American - October 17, 1840
Pacific Appeal - May 10, 1862
Colored American - April 24, 1841

From the 1820s to the Civil War, African Americans assumed prominent roles in the transatlantic struggle to abolish slavery. In contrast to the popular belief that the abolitionist crusade was driven by wealthy whites, some 300 black abolitionists were regularly involved in the antislavery movement, heightening its credibility and broadening its agenda. The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period. These important documents provide a portrait of black involvement in the anti-slavery movement; scans of these documents are provided as images and PDF files.

Please contact the library reference desk at edesk@udmercy.edu  or 313-993-1071 for assistance with this collection. 

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