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Expanded Coverage Of The Liberator and African-American Newspapers
Malvern, PA (November 2, 2007) – Accessible Archives, Inc., a leading publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, has announced the imminent availability of Part III of The...
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Expansion of The Liberator and African-American Newspapers
Malvern, PA (June 12, 2008) – Accessible Archives, Inc., a leading publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, has announced the immediate release of Parts IV and V of The...
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Here is an interesting tidbit from the April 7, 1854 issue of The Liberator, a source available on the Accessible Archives database. Even in the early 1800s, some people lived to a remarkably advanced...
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Godey’s Lady’s Book, The Liberator, and The Pennsylvania Gazette
In Philadelphia, in 1830, Louis Antoine Godey (1804-1878) began publishing Godey’s Lady’s Book which he designed specifically to attract the growing audience of American women. The magazine was...
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Edgar A. Poe’s “The Raven” was Published Today in 1845
On January 29, 1845 one of the most famous and recognizable poems ever published in the United States hit the streets. Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven was published in the New York’s The Evening...
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The Man Behind The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in December, 1805. At thirteen years of age he began his newspaper career with the Newburyport Herald, where he acquired great skills in...
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Slavery in 1861: The Rabbi and the Reaction
A friend forwarded me this link on Monday – The Rabbi and the Rebellion, by Adam Goodheart. Excerpt: The great national debate over slavery brought fame very suddenly to a certain owlish, bespectacled...
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The Slave’s Appeal (Poem)
In June of 1821, the first issue of The Genius of Universal Emancipation, one of the nation’s first anti-slavery newspapers, was created. Unlike later papers, The Genius promoted the idea of gradual...
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A Fiendish Murder by an Inhuman Wretch
This item was reported in The Liberator on March 29, 1861. William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper often featured examples of inhumanly evil acts by people of all walks of life and ties them back into what...
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The President’s Murderer is Dead
On April 26, 1865 Union soldiers out of Washington D.C. tracked down John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice David Herold to the Garrett family’s farm in Virginia. Boston Corbett Before dawn on April 26,...
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Negro Insurrection in Kentucky, December 1856
From The Newport Kentucky News: We learn from the Russellville Herald, of Wednesday last, that great excitement exists in the neighborhood of Volney and Gordensville. A negro belonging to one of the...
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The Death of a Fire-Eater
William Lowndes Yancey (born August 10, 1814, died July 27, 1863) was a journalist who went on to fame, or infamy, as a politician, orator, and diplomat. He spent years as one of the chief leaders of...
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In Memory of William Roscoe, Esq. in The Liberator 1831
William Roscoe (8 March 1753 – 30 June 1831), was an English historian and miscellaneous writer. Born in Liverpool, Roscoe left school at the age of twelve, having learned all that his schoolmaster...
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Walk where Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison once Walked
The African Meeting House, also known variously as First African Baptist Church, First Independent Baptist Church and the Belknap Street Church, was built in 1806 and is now the oldest black church...
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The Origins of Isaac Knapp’s ‘The Negro Pew’
This call for stories and experiences by Christian churchgoers appeared in several issues of The Liberator while Isaac Knapp gathered material for his book. Knapp’s completed book, based on his call...
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The Death Of Reverend Lemuel Haynes in 1833
The following item appeared in The Liberator a month after Reverend Hayne’s death in 1833. This eminent servant of God, died in Granville, N.Y. on the 28th of September, aged 80 years. He was born in...
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Abolitionist Wendell Phillips Treated to Rotten Eggs in Cincinnati
By a telegraphic despatch from Cincinnati, which we published yesterday, our readers have seen that Wendell Phillips, in attempting to deliver one of his revolutionary lectures in that city, created a...
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Nancy Shively on the Massachusetts 54th Regiment at Fort Wagner
Today, July 18th, marks the anniversary of the Civil War battle in which the legendary Massachusetts 54th Regiment heroically led a Union assault on Fort Wagner, SC. My first acquaintance with this...
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The Liberator Announces the Death of William L. Yancey
William Lowndes , Yancey , whose death is announced from Richmond, was born in Columbia, S.C. in 1815, but at an early age removed to Alabama, Where he served in the legislature, and was in 1844,...
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Confessions of a Southern Man in August 1832
The Liberator (1831-1865) was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831. Garrison published weekly issues of The Liberator from Boston continuously for 35 years, from January...
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