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University of Detroit Mercy
Black Abolitionist Archive


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Slavery--women (6)

Speaker or Author: editor
Newspaper:Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
Date Published: 1852-05-06
Notes: The writer comments on the story of a free African American man who purchased his wife to free her from slavery. When this man fell into debt, however, his wife and children were seized as part of his property and sold to repay his debts. The writer questions the definition of freedom in cases like this.

Speaker or Author: editor
Newspaper:Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
Date Published: 1852-08-12
Notes: The writer briefly relates the story of a female fugitive slave who escaped slavery by dressing as a man.

Speaker or Author: Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882
Newspaper:Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
Title: Mrs. Douglass Lectures
Date Published: 1859-07-23
Notes: Overview of speech delivered before a group of women regarding hygiene and health.

Newspaper:Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
Title: A Debate
Date Published: 1860-01-21
Notes: Lively and interesting debate regarding the question "Which has sustained the most injustice at the hands of the American people, the American Indian or the Anglo-African?"
Speaker or Author: editor
Newspaper:Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
Date Published: 1861-04-20
Notes: The writer responds angrily to a notice published in another newspaper that offers a reward for the return of an escaped female slave who ran away even though her ankles were chained together.

Speaker or Author: Paulyon, Miss
Newspaper:Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
Title: Lecture by Miss Paulyon
Date Published: 1861-09-07
Notes: Overview of a speech regarding one woman's experience with and escape from slavery.