Manumission Intelligencier
Type | Media of the United States |
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The Manumission Intelligencier was an
History
In 1819, after securing the approval and cooperation of the Manumission Society of Tennessee, of which he was an active member, Embree began the publication of a weekly anti-slavery paper at Jonesborough, Tennessee, under the name of the Manumission Intelligencier, the first issue of which appeared in March.[1] Very little is known concerning this paper. Of the fifty or more issues that were published, less than a dozen copies are known to have survived to the twentieth century.[2][3]
In April 1820, the paper switched from a weekly to a monthly format and changed its name to The Emancipator, though it remained under the same editorship.[2] The object of the paper as set forth in an address to the general public in the first issue was to "advocate the abolition of slavery, and to be a repository of tracts on that interesting and important subject."[4] In the paper, slavery and slaveholders were condemned in the strongest terms, and the evils of the system of slavery were forcefully pointed out.
Despite being an outspoken abolition paper published in a
The Emancipator had an existence of only eight months due to the death of Embree, aged 38, on December 4, 1820,[5] from "bilious fever". A full collection of the journal, comprising one hundred and twelve pages, was reprinted in 1932 by B. H. Murphy.
The holdings of the paper were sold to another Quaker, Benjamin Lundy, and the publication was renamed The Genius of Universal Emancipation.
Extant holdings, reprints, and digital facsimiles
- The Emancipator (Jonesborough, Tennessee, 1820)
- Available free online: Vol. 1 no. 1 — Vol. 1 no. 7
See also
References
Citations
- ^ White, Moses (c. 1878). "East Tennessee Journalism". Nashville American.
- ^ JSTOR 1886909.
- ^ Temple, Oliver P. (1899). East Tennessee and the Civil War. Cincinnati. p. 91.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Embree, Elihu (April 30, 1820). "Address of the Editor". The Emancipator. 1 (1).
- ^ Martin dates Embree's death to December 12, 1820, although other sources give December 4.
Sources
- Vaughn, Stephen L. (editor) Encyclopedia of American Journalism (Routledge, 2009) p. 4