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Abolitionist newspapers and magazines (U.S.) Title Dates Location Notable editors Online editions The Anti-Slavery Bugle [1] 1845–1861: Lisbon, Ohio: James Barnaby, Oliver Johnson: LOC, Newspapers.com: The Colored American: 1837-1842 New York, New York Samuel Cornish, Phillip Alexander Bell, Charles Bennett Ray: Genius of Universal ...
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The Emancipator (1833–1850) was an American abolitionist newspaper, at first published in New York City and later in Boston. It was founded as the official newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS).
On September 25, 1690, the first colonial newspaper in America, Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, was published in Boston. However, it was suppressed after its first edition. [1] In 1704, the governor allowed The Boston News-Letter, a weekly, to be published, and it became the first continuously published newspaper in the colonies.
Elihu Embree (November 11, 1782 – December 4, 1820) was an abolitionist in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and publisher of Manumission Intelligencier (later renamed as The Emancipator). Founded in 1819, it was the first newspaper in the United States devoted exclusively to the cause of abolishing slavery .
The Liberator (1831–1865) was a weekly abolitionist newspaper, printed and published in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison and, through 1839, by Isaac Knapp.Religious rather than political, it appealed to the moral conscience of its readers, urging them to demand immediate freeing of the slaves ("immediatism").
The newspaper was originally Elihu Embree's The Emancipator in 1820, before Lundy purchased it the following year. Lundy's contributions reflected his Quaker views, condemning slavery on moral and religious grounds and advocating for gradual emancipation and the resettlement of freed slaves in other countries, including Haiti, Canada, and Liberia.
The newspaper was founded by John Wilk, Peter Williams, Jr., and other leading free Blacks in New York City, including orator and abolitionist William Hamilton.The first publication, on March 16, 1827, advertised Freedom's Journal for $3 (~$81.00 in 2023) per year, distributed each Friday at No. 5 Varick Street, New York City. [6]