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Black Abolitionist Archive
Palladium of Liberty - July 10, 1844
J. B. Sanderson
Colored American - May 29, 1841
Charles Lenox Remond
Colored American - June 9, 1838
Voice of the Fugitive - June 18, 1851
Frederick Douglass' Paper - December 1, 1854
Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate - March 10, 1842
William Wells Brown
Weekly Anglo-African - June 9, 1860
Robert Campbell
Charles Lenox Remond
Colored American - June 1, 1839
Sojouner Truth
Colored American - September 4, 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.For assistance with this collection, please contact the the University Archivist, Mara Powell at 313-993-1950 or the library reference desk at 313-993-1071. You may also email the reference desk for assistance at edesk@udmercy.edu.

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