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Black Abolitionist Archive
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Subtitle: Prospectus. Title: Colored Citizen - November 7, 1863 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Colored Citizen (1863 - 18??) The editor offers a brief introduction to the first issue of the Colored Citizen newspaper. Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column |
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Subtitle: "Emancipation Promotes Insurrection." Title: Colored Citizen - November 7, 1863 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Colored Citizen (1863 - 18??) The writer comments on an incident in England where a minister refused to invite his congregation to a lecture on emancipation. The minister aligned with the ideas of Lord Brougham regarding emancipation which seem now to the writer to be in direct contradiction to his earlier views. Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column |
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Subtitle: Volunteering. Title: Colored Citizen - November 7, 1863 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Colored Citizen (1863 - 18??) The writer encourages all able African American men of Ohio to volunteer to fight in the Civil War. Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column |
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Subtitle: Festivals. Title: Colored Citizen - November 7, 1863 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Colored Citizen (1863 - 18??) The writer encourages the women of Cincinnati to offer a festival to benefit the soldiers at Camp Delaware. Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column |
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Subtitle: "Honor to the Brave." Title: Colored Citizen - November 7, 1863 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Colored Citizen (1863 - 18??) The writer offers a word of tribute to the brave African American soldiers who were fighting and dying in the Civil War. Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column |
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Subtitle: Will We Fail? Title: Colored Citizen - November 7, 1863 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Colored Citizen (1863 - 18??) The writer offers words of encouragement to his readers during these tense days when it seems as if there are those who would stand in the way of their advancement and still call themselves friends. Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column |
Subtitle: Instrumental Music in Churches. Title: Colored Citizen - November 7, 1863 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Colored Citizen (1863 - 18??) The writer presents the case for using instrumental music during church services and not just limiting this form of worship to choir and organ music. Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page |
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Subtitle: What the War has Done for the Negro. Title: Colored Citizen - November 7, 1863 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Colored Citizen (1863 - 18??) The writer shares an article published in Victoria magazine regarding the Civil War's effect on African Americans and slavery. Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page |
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Title: Impartial Citizen - March 28, 1849 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Impartial Citizen (1849 - 1851) Brief comment on an article published in the Ram's Horn regarding the "splendid humbug" in Florence, New York. Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column |
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Title: Impartial Citizen - August 8, 1849 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Impartial Citizen (1849 - 1851) Brief note asking what can be done regarding the Temperance cause in Cortland County. The writer suggests that every church offer a sermon on the subject. Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column |
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Subtitle: The Letter of the Rev. Henry Highland Garnet. Title: Impartial Citizen - June 27, 1849 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Impartial Citizen (1849 - 1851) Brief note regarding a comment made by Frederick Douglass about a letter written by Henry Highland Garnet. Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column |
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Title: Impartial Citizen - October 10, 1849 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Impartial Citizen (1849 - 1851) Brief note that the political platform of the old Liberty Party was assumed by the new Democratic Party with the exception of the idea of Abolition. Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column |
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Subtitle: Moral Reform. Title: Impartial Citizen - January 23, 1850 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Impartial Citizen (1849 - 1851) Brief overview of a sermon regarding moral reform. Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column |
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Subtitle: The Delay of the Citizen. Title: Impartial Citizen - October 26, 1850 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Impartial Citizen (1849 - 1851) The editor apologies for the delay in publishing this edition of the newspaper. He promises articles on important issues of interest to his readers will follow in subsequent editions of the newspaper. Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column |
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Subtitle: The Impartial Citizen, Samuel R. Ward, Editor. Syracuse, Wednesday, June 27, 1849. Title: Impartial Citizen - June 27, 1849 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Impartial Citizen (1849 - 1851) The editor tells his readers how the newspaper got its start; and of its value and history. The newspaper has taken over the subscription lists of several other newspapers that didn't survive, but now needs more subscribers in order to continue its rate of publication. Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns) |
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Subtitle: Whig Anti-Slavery. Title: Impartial Citizen - March 14, 1849 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Impartial Citizen (1849 - 1851) The writer addresses the question of whether the new territories should be designated slave or free states. He offers commentary on the stand some politicians are taking on this issue. Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns) |
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Title: Impartial Citizen - December 19, 1849 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Impartial Citizen (1849 - 1851) The writer alerts his readers to a new African American newspaper in Philadelphia. Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column |
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Title: Impartial Citizen - January 2, 1850 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Impartial Citizen (1849 - 1851) The writer alerts his readers to a new Temperance newspaper called the Ballot Box. He notes that the editors of this newspaper had had him expelled from the Sons of Temperance Order because he was an African American. Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column |
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Subtitle: Basis of Taxation. Title: Impartial Citizen - September 26, 1849 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Impartial Citizen (1849 - 1851) The writer asserts that the basis for governmental taxation should be on a man's ability to pay and not the amount of property he owns. Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page |
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Subtitle: The Swisshelms. Title: Impartial Citizen - January 23, 1850 Speaker or author: editor Newspaper or publication: Impartial Citizen (1849 - 1851) The writer briefly comments on Jane Gray Swisshelm and her newspaper, "The Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter." Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column |