1853 · Washington, D.C.
by Gamaliel Bailey, Jr., editor & proprietor; John G. Whittier, corresponding editor
Washington, D.C., 1853. 26” x 18”, folded in half horizontally. G. Bailey, Jr., Editor and Proprietor; John G. Whittier, Corresponding Editor. This abolitionist newspaper was edited by Gameliel Bailey, the editor of the earlier Cincinnati abolitionist paper, The Philanthropist. Influential in part for its persuasive emotional writing from the noted abolitionist John G. Whittier and others, as well as publishing the first serialized Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1851. ~~These issues contain interesting articles describing a kidnapping written by a former slave in Virginia named C.M. Howard, ads for Free Labor Produce, excerpts from Margaret (truncated)