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TitleThe black experience in America: The immigrant heritage of America
Date Created1993-05-00
DescriptionThis study described the character and culture the African-American people have created for themselves in the United States, first as slaves and then as a free people. It pointed to the many important...
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TitleWest Jersey Press. -- Extra. List of the drafted men in Camden, Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland.
Date Created1861-1865
DescriptionAn 'extra' page from the pro-abolition press of Camden County listing men drafted into service in the Civil War from Camden, Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland counties of New Jersey.
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TitleThe new constitution
Date Created1844-07
DescriptionArticle from the New Jersey Freeman that expressed the editors abhorrence of the New State constitution of New Jersey. In particular the disfranchisement of African-Americans. Calling to attention...
Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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TitleColorphobia
Date Created1844-09
DescriptionStory from the New Jersey Freeman orginally from the Liberty Press of Utica, NY. The story goes a black man, on a dark train was talking with a bunch of whitemen as their equal. When the morning...
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TitleThe drunkards wife
Date Created1844-07
DescriptionArticle from New Jersey Freeman about the effects of alcohol on the family. The writer reported that while on vacation at her friends well kept house that down the road there was a very ill-kept...
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TitleTobacco and Death
Date Created1844-07
DescriptionArticle from the New Jersey Freeman about the use of tobacco. This article is temperance related and thus shows another side to the purpose of the New Jersey Freeman. The article itself condemened...
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TitleA fact for drinking men
Date Created1845-06
DescriptionArticle from the newspaper, the New Jersey Freeman about drinking. The article reports that out of a group of ten men, who spent one night in a bar drinking; three are now in a "drunkard's grave"...
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TitleSlavery and the church
Date Created1844-09
DescriptionArticle from New Jersey Freeman claiming some sections in Virginia believed that slavery was not against the Bible. These sections also claimed that the Bible supports slavery.
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TitleThe slave boy
Date Created1844-10
DescriptionPoem from the New Jersey Freeman about the life of a slave boy. The poem talks about the depressing conditions of slave life, but ends with hope that the bonds of slavery will be broken.
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TitleGet off the track
Date Created1844-09
DescriptionPoem from New Jersey Freeman about the country riding a train to emancipation