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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-08-12 | | Notes: | The writer comments on an article published in a Nashville, Tennessee newspaper urging readers to vote for Governor Campbell and a return to the institution of slavery. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-08-12 | | Notes: | The writer shares information with his readers regarding the alarming rate of truancy among school aged children. He asks parents to get involved and ensure that their children attend school. He emphasizes that a good education is beneficial to the social perception of the entire African American race. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-08-12 | | Notes: | The editor sends a note of thanks to his readers for their support and continued readership. He tells them that the newspaper will improve and offer a continued focus on benefiting the African American community. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-08-26 | | Notes: | The writer comments on the demeanor of Robert E. Lee as he surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant. The writer notes that there was no humility in this surrender and it seemed to be based more on the South's inability to feed its troops than on any admission of wrong. This, he believes, leaves open the question of continuing the institution of slavery. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-08-26 | | Notes: | The writer tells his readers that while the white portion of the population is prejudiced against the black portion, the black portion feels no prejudice against the white. He emphasizes that what African Americans feel towards their white counterparts is actually a lack of trust and not prejudice. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Hamilton, Robert | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-09-03 | | Notes: | Letter to the editor stressing the importance of education to African Americans. Elevation involves political advancement, influence and power, and this is not possible for those without education. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-09-03 | | Notes: | The writer responds to a note published in another newspaper saying that free African Americans will not be content to rank themselves among those newly freed slaves who that author believes do not yet have the "rudiments of civilization." |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-09-03 | | Notes: | The writer tells his readers of the current violence following in the aftermath of the Civil War. Although slavery has been abolished, it has created an atmosphere of hatred in the Southern states as the newly freed slaves stand as a symbol of the defeat of the Confederacy. This is resulting in wholesale murder and mob violence. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-09-03 | | Notes: | The writer offers an overview of the situation in the British West Indies after emancipation. Although the feared violence never manifested, the growing tension between the newly freed slaves and former slave-owners was more pronounced than previously believed. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-09-03 | | Notes: | The writer encourages his readers to not patronize businesses that are openly prejudice towards African Americans. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-09-09 | | Notes: | The writer responds to a lengthy article published in the Tribune newspaper containing a discussion of the physical, intellectual, and emotional condition of African Americans. The writer expresses his frustration with the continuous fascination white citizens seem to have with categorizing and explaining African American behavior now that the slaves are free. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-09-09 | | Notes: | The writer explains that African Americans from the northern states are traveling south to offer education to the newly freed slaves. This action, he believes, is more beneficial to them than the good intentions of white educators who may unconsciously instill a feeling of inferiority and low self-esteem to those they teach. These well-intentioned white teachers in referring to newly freed slaves as "poor unfortunate creatures" are already assuming that the rescue of those they consider less than human. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-10-07 | | Notes: | The editor calls for those who are interested in representing the newspaper in their areas to submit their names for consideration. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-10-07 | | Notes: | The editor briefly tells his readers about the visit to the U. S. of the African ambassador to both offer condolences on the death of Abraham Lincoln, and to congratulate the country on the end of the Civil War. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-10-07 | | Notes: | The editor comments on the benefits of newspapers published by and for the African American community. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-10-07 | | Notes: | The editor explains to his readers that editorials are based on opinion and those who oppose the opinion should express their disagreement in writing not by barging into the newspaper office and physically confronting the editor. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Title: | The Change we have made. A step taken ahead. Our paper to be issued earlier hereafter. | | Date Published: | 1865-10-07 | | Notes: | The editor explains the recent changes that the newspaper has gone through in an effort to fulfill its mission to provide quality to its readers. These changes include size, publication date, and advertising (which was not offered previously). |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-10-07 | | Notes: | The writer expresses the fears that permeate African American communities that the white slaveholders will demand a return to the system of slavery, and be granted this by the government. The majority of African Americans, however, are determined to resist and not allow this to happen without a fight. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-10-07 | | Notes: | The writer praises the editor of the Elevator newspaper for his outstanding work. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-11-11 | | Notes: | The writer offers his views regarding the current governmental ideas on Reconstruction after the Civil War. He tells his readers that he speaks for all African Americans in saying that the country should work towards ensuring freedom for all and providing all American people with the rights of citizenship regardless of color. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Title: | The Demonstration of Congratulation to the Colored Heroes, at Harrisburg, PA, on the 14th Inst. | | Date Published: | 1865-11-11 | | Notes: | Brief note announcing a celebration to honor African Americans who fought in the Civil War. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-11-11 | | Notes: | The editor comments briefly on three African American newspapers published in the U.S. and Guiana. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-11-18 | | Notes: | Brief notification of the death of James McCune Smith. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-12-09 | | Notes: | The writer reported on conventions held in several states. He gave a brief overview of each. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-12-23 | | Notes: | The writer celebrates the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolishes slavery forever in the U.S. and provides for the protection of freedom for all citizens. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Anglo-African (1863 - 1865) | | Date Published: | 1865-12-23 | | Notes: | The writer comments on the proceedings of the first session of the Thirty-Ninth Congress. Debate about laws and civil rights for the newly freed slaves after Reconstruction made this session an important one. |
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