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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1837-04-29 | | Notes: | The writer admonishes African Americans who indulge in immoral behavior such as drinking, smoking, and avoiding church on Sundays. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1837-08-19 | | Notes: | The writer relates a story of being refused a cup of tea at a temperance house. The proprietor of the house said that he didn't want to upset his customers and so he refused to serve the editor of this paper. The writer expresses his opinion of this refusal and included a letter from Thomas Van Rensselaer expressing a similar point of view. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Smith, N. | | Newspaper: | Palladium of Liberty (1843 - 1844) | | Title: | Temperance Address Delivered at a meeting of the Temperance Society at Circleville, by N. Smith of Lancaster, May 27 | | Date Published: | 1844-06-19 | | Notes: | Temperance speech comparing the addiction to alcohol with slavery. Emphasis is place on the idea that slavery is just as much an enemy to human health as alcohol is. (Last page of speech is missing in original and therefore in this version.) |
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