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From the Archives:
Newspapers
Nineteenth
Century newspapers are a window on the social and political life
of the community and the nation. Read between the lines and
you’ll discover valuable clues about abolitionist activities and
the Underground Railroad.
Forcible arrest of a supposed
fugitive slave, Mercer Luminary, Mercer, Pennsylvania,
October 6, 1841
First-hand account of
Harrison Williams capture in Busti, New York October 3, 1851,
written three days after the incident occurred. Frederick Douglass
Paper, Rochester, New York, November 6, 1851
Frederick Douglass
letter from the editor commenting on recent anti-slavery meeting in
Sugar Grove, Warren County, Pennsylvania. Frederick Douglass Paper,
Rochester, New York, June 23,1854
“The Bonny Brown Mare: or
the Way an Abolitionist was ‘Done Brown’,” about an event that
took place in Wellsburg, near Albion, Pennsylvania, Erie Observer,
Erie, Pennsylvania, September 26, 1857
Announcement of the Arrival
of Frederick Douglass to Erie,
Erie Observer,
Erie, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1858
“The
Visit of Frederick Douglass,”
Erie Weekly
Gazette,
Erie, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1858
Notice of increasing
Underground Railroad activity,
The
Crawford Journal
Meadville, Pennsylvania, May 3, 1859
The Negro Bill,
Erie
Observer,
Erie, Pennsylvania, April 11, 1863
Hamilton Waters’ ad
searching for family members after the Civil War
The Christian Recorder, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 28,
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