Database:
African American Newspapers
Coherent Digital
About this Database
Part of the History Commons module, African American newspapers (also known as the Black press or Black newspapers) are news publications in the United States serving African American communities. Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African American periodical, Freedom's Journal, in 1827. During the Antebellum South, other African American newspapers sprang up, such as The North Star, founded in 1847 by Frederick Douglass. Search the full-text of the following titles: The Christian Recorder, Toronto, ON, 1861-April 1882. Colored American, New York, 1837-Mar. 1841. Frederick Douglass Papers (continuation of The North Star), 1851-1856. Freedom
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