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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 last of Jeff Davis
Date Created1865
DescriptionPoem by Asa Pyatt that recounts the burning of the South, the defeat of the Confederate states' attempt to secede from the union, and the political defeat of Jeff Davis.
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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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TitleLiberty Ticket
Date Created1844-10
DescriptionThe Liberty Party candidates of 1844 for Presdient and Vice President, as well as the electors, and governor of New Jersey.
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TitleGet off the track
Date Created1844-09
DescriptionPoem from New Jersey Freeman about the country riding a train to emancipation
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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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TitleCold water O how sweet
Date Created1844-07
DescriptionPoem from the New Jersey Freeman about the social conditions a poor family. It compares the healthful influence of nature's beverage, water with the poisoning effects of intoxicating drinks.
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TitleAwake the song
Date Created1844-07
DescriptionAnti-slavery poem from the New Jersey Freeman. Called for liberty of slaves from Maine to Texas and said that the slaves were ready to rise up. Overall a good depiction of abolitionist sentiment...
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TitleThe man for me
Date Created1845-07-01
DescriptionPoem about a woman not being attracted to man who has his hands in any form in slavery. "Oh he is not the man for me, who buys or sells a slave."