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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - December 31, 1859

Speaker or author: editor

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

Political tensions grow between the North and the South. The writer includes quoted threats from Virginia's Governor Wise to hang Frederick Douglass and drive the abolitionists out of the Union (or create a Confederacy).

Description of file(s): one scanned, three columned, newspaper page

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

Keywords: abolitionists; fugitive; government; North; politics; Pro-Slavery; religion; South; union; Virginia

People: Brown, John; Douglass, Frederick; Phillips, Wendell; Wise, H. A.

Publication type: editorials; Newspapers

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