African American Newspapers: The 19th Century (1827-1902)

African-American Newspapers: the Nineteenth Century includes the complete and searchable text of major newspapers:

  • Freedom's Journal, New York, New York (March 16, 1827 - March 28 1829);
  • The Colored American (Weekly Advocate), New York, New York (January 7, 1837 - December 25, 1841);
  • The North Star, Rochester, New York (December 3, 1847 - April 17,1851);
  • The National Era, Washington, D.C. (January 7, 1847 - March 22, 1860);
  • Provincial Freeman, Chatham, Canada West (1854-1857);
  • Frederick Douglass' Paper, Rochester, New York (1851-1859) (Completed through December 1852);
  • The Christian Recorder (1861-1902).