The Emancipator (newspaper)

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    • The Emancipator (1833–1850) was an American abolitionist newspaper, at first published in New York City and later in Boston. It was founded as the official newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS). From 1840 to 1850, it was published by the Liberty Party; the publication changed names several times as it merged with other abolitionist newspapers in Boston.

    Contributors to the paper included Lewis Tappan (of the Amistad case), James McCune Smith (who also co-edited The Colored American), Joseph Cammett Lovejoy, Samuel Edmund Sewall, Henry Brewster Stanton, Horace Edwin Smith, William Ellery Channing, and William Stevens Robinson.[1]

    History

    The Emancipator was founded in March 1833 in New York City by Arthur Tappan, a wealthy abolitionist and president of the American Anti-Slavery Society. The March 1833 publication marked the beginning of the abolitionist movement in New York state.[2] The Emancipator's first editor was Charles Wheeler Denison.

    African-American

    sales agents
    selected to represent the new publication included:

    On October 25, 1835, in a nationally publicized spectacle, a

    extradite Williams, "a fugitive," to stand trial. Marcy refused.[4]

    From 1836 to 1840, the editor was Theodore Dwight Weld. After Weld left this position, Joshua Leavitt succeeded him as editor.

    In 1840, the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society splintered from the American Anti-Slavery Society. The Emancipator then became Leavitt's personal publication and a leading journal of the Liberty Party,[5] with Leavitt continuing as the editor of the newspaper until 1848.

    The newspaper underwent several name changes between 1842 and 1848 as it slowly merged with other abolitionist newspapers located in Boston. Throughout this period, the publication was a continual exponent of abolitionism.[6] In January 1842, the publication merged with The Free American, the official newspaper of the Massachusetts Abolition Society, and was published weekly as The Emancipator and Free American. Leavitt (New York) and Elizur Wright (Boston) served as co-editors until March 1844, when Wright left and the journal moved its headquarters to Boston.

    The publication (at that point known as the Emancipator & Republican) published its final issue on December 26, 1850.

    Timelines

    Editors

    1833–1834 Charles Wheeler Denison
    1834–1835 William Goodell
    1836
    Amos Augustus Phelps
    1836–1840 Theodore Dwight Weld
    1840–1841 Joshua Leavitt
    1842–1844 Joshua Leavitt (New York) and Elizur Wright (Boston)
    1844 John Greenleaf Whittier (for a short period)
    1845–1848 Joshua Leavitt
    March 1848 Curtis C. Nichols
    1848–1850 Henry Wilson, followed by Lucius Edwin Smith[1]

    Publication name

    Mar. 1833–Jan. 1842 The Emancipator
    Jan. 1842–Mar. 1844 The Emancipator and Free American
    Mar. 27, 1844–Oct. 8, 1845 The Emancipator and Weekly Chronicle
    Oct. 15, 1845–Sept. 13, 1848 The Emancipator
    Sept. 20, 1848–Nov. 8, 1848 The Emancipator and Free Soil Press, organ of the Free Soil Party (ending Vol. 8, No. 29, Whole No. 653)
    Nov. 17, 1848–Dec. 26, 1850 Emancipator & Republican (Vol. 4, No. 6; ending Vol. 15, No. 35).[1][b]

    Publishers

    The Emancipator
    1835–1841 Robert G. Williams (né Ransom Goss Williams), publisher in New York City[7]
    1845–1848 Rev. Hiram Cummings, publisher in Boston[8]
    Emancipator & Republican
    1849 Henry Wilson, publisher in Boston, February 9, 1849 – August 16, 1849
    1849–1850 Wilson & Bent[9] – Henry Wilson and John Bent, publishers in Boston, August 23, 1849 – December 26, 1850

    Gallery

    Extant holdings, re-prints, and digital facsimiles

    • The Emancipator (–1834)
    OCLC 318815042
    • The Emancipator, and Journal of Public Morals (1834–1835)
    OCLC 318814260
    OCLC 865521505
    • The Emancipator (1833–1848)
    OCLC 865521587
    • The Emancipator (1835–1840)
    Filmed from the
    OCLC 4996989
    • The Emancipator (1845–1848)
    OCLC 10352375
    OCLC 824798074
    • Emancipator and Free American (1842–1844)
    OCLC 192107281, 723812438, 1060722598
    (
    OCLC 32651685
    • Emancipator and Weekly Chronicle (1844–1845)
    Filmed from the
    OCLC 32651724
    • Emancipator and Free Soil Press
    OCLC 10352445
    OCLC 865521597
    • Emancipator & Republican
    Microfilm;
    OCLC 38872229
    OCLC 1100208152, 723812372
    OCLC 1060831572

    Further reading

    See also

    References

    Notes

    1. ^ Ruggles, who was bookseller and publisher, advertised for additional agents to distribute anti-slavery newspapers.[3]
    2. ^ The short-lived Commonwealth and Emancipator, launched in 1851, had no connection to the Emancipator & Republican. It was first published in Boston January 4, 1851 (Vol. 1, No. 1), with William S. Damrell & Co. publisher) and Joseph Lyman editor.

    Citations

    1. ^
      OCLC 758736958, 10352375
    2. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 16, No. 4, October 1931, pps. 454–473 (accessible via JSTOR
      )
    3. ^ The Emancipator
      Vol. 1, No.   6, June 8, 1833, p. 21
      Vol. 2, No. 19, May 13, 1834
      Vol. 2, No. 21, May 17, 1834
      Vol. 2, No. 32, August 12, 1834
    4. ^ "Refuge of Oppression," "The Liberator, January 23, 1836, p. 1 (accessible via Newspapers.com, subscription required)
    5. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 48, No. 3, July 1963, pps. 177–195 (accessible via JSTOR
      )
    6. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. University of Tennessee Press
      . Retrieved 23 January 2014.
    7. ^ "About The Emancipator (New-York) 1835–1841," Library of Congress
    8. ^ "About The Emancipator (Boston) 1845–1848," Library of Congress
    9. ^ Boston Post, August 16, 1849, p. 2 (accessible via Newspaperarchive.com, subscription required)
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