February 23rd, 2012
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The Liberator (1831-1865) was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831. Although its circulation was only about 3,000, and three-quarters of subscribers were African Americans, the newspaper earned nationwide notoriety for its uncompromising advocacy of "immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves" in the United States. Newspaper, “The Liberator,” Boston, May 4, 1860, 4pp., never bound. Filled with news, letters, and editorials advocating abolition. From an inside page “A Slave Auction,” is an eyewitness account. In part, “In the morning I took two ladies of my party to a slave auction that they might see the vile institution as it is. ... The auctioneer was assisted by a Negro man called Major, whose business was to order the Negroes up on the block, to strip them naked to show the buyers ...First a Negro man Tom was brought out of the pen ...Then a buyer calls Tom to him ... seizing his upper jaw with one hand and the lower with the other, drags open his mouth while he counts Tom’s teeth ... In sight of all this fiendish brutality sits Tom’s wife, with one child at the breast ...” Great report in this abolitionist newspaper. VG.
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