Douglass News Inventory

North Star Volume I

Volume#: I
Issue #: XII
Date: Friday, March 17(1848 written in ink at later date); date also given on page 2.

Height: 24-3/4"
Width: 18-1/4"

Condition: Poor. Approximately one-fifth of first page is missing. Laminated.

Notes: Frederick Douglass. Two pages separately laminated. We believe the second page is the second page of this issue as it quotes from a letter of March 1, 1848.

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• From the Sixteenth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, Wilmot Proviso.
• From Parker's Letter on Slavery, Effects of Slavery on Education

North Star Volume III

Volume#: III
Issue #:9
Whole No. 113

Height: 24-7/8"
Width: 18-3/8"

Condition: Excellent. Treated by Suzanne Martin Gramly, Conservator of Paper, The Strong Museum, Rochester, NY, October 29, 1996.

Notes: Elaborate masthead featuring etching of an escaped slave with a knapsack following the north star. "Right is of no sex — truth is of no color — God is the father of us all — and all men are brethren." John Dick, printer. Published every Friday.

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• Argument of Charles Sumner, Esq. against the constitutionality of Separate Colored Schools.
• From the Eighteenth Annual Report of the Mass. Anti-Slavery Society, Our Aim. 
• Thirty-First Congress. 
• Mason's Fugitive Slave Bill.

North Star Volume IV

Issue 5

Volume#: IV
Issue #: 5
Whole No. 161

Date: January 23, 1851

Height: 25"
Width: 18-1/4"

Condition: Poor. A lot of tearing along the edges, foxing, and discoloration.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: Published every Thursday.

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories: "An Address."

Issue 6

Volume#: IV
Issue #: 6
Whole No. 162
Date: January 30, 1851

Height: 25"
Width: 18-1/4"

Condition: Fair. Hole in the middle, tearing along edges.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: William B. Clough, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• American Slavery 
• Immediate Abolition of Slavery 
• Letter from Robert Purvis

Issue 8

Volume#: IV
Issue #: 8
Whole No. 164

Date: February 13, 1851

Height: 25"
Width: 18-1/4"

Condition: Poor. Big hole in the middle, foxing.

Notes: Published every Thursday.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories: Liberator Soiree in Cochituate Hall

Issue 17

Volume#: IV
Issue #: 17
Whole No. 173

Date: April 17, 1851

Height: 25"
Weight: 18-1/4"

Condition: Poor. Big hole in the middle.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Thursday.

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• Speech of Geo. Thompson In Toronto
• Sorrows of Sewing Women

Issue 20

Volume#: IV
Issue #: 20
Whole No. 176

Date: May 8, 1851

Height: 25"
Width: 18-1/4"

Condition: Fair. Foxing, and tearing along right edge.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: William B. Clough, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• The Canal Bill
• Affairs in Haiti 
• Lynch Law in California
• Never Despair
• Lady Franklin's Expedition to the Arctic Regions 
• Col. Benton and the Majority Principle

Issue 21

Volume#: IV
Issue #: 21
Whole No. 177

Date: May 15, 1851

Condition: Treated by Suzanne Martin Gramly, Conservator of Paper, Strong Museum, Rochester, NY, 10/29/96.

Microfilm: No

Douglass' Paper Volume IV

Issue 27

Volume#: IV
Issue#: 27
Whole No. 183

Date: June 26, 1851

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Fair. Erosion in top left corner, some foxing.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: "5.00 JW" penciled in top right corner.

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories

• . . . Union in England, and . . . American Slavery
• Rev. Dr. Pennington
• The Expounder and the South
• Call for a National Convention of the Liberty Party

Issue 28

Volume#: IV
Issue#: 28
Whole No. 184

Date: Thursday, July 3, 1851

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Poor. Stain on top of paper, erosion on top left corner.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: "JW" penciled in the corner.

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• . . . Embrace of American Slavery
• Excommunication of American Ministers
• A Juryman Expelled
• George Thompson at Norristown, Penn.
• The Fourth of July Celebration

Issue 36

Volume#: IV
Issue#: 36
Whole No. 192

Thursday, August 28, 1851

Height: 27"
Width: 18-3/4"

Condition: Excellent, except for some deterioration of the fold from top to 7-1/2" down. Some of what appear to be ink stains above masthead near subscriber's name.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: JW initials; 5.00 erased. John Thomas, corresponding editor.

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• Anniversary of West Indian Negro Emancipation
• The Higher Law
• First of August in New Bedford
• Slavery and the Capture of Washington City in 1814
• Beauties of Slavery
• Whig Hypocrisy
• Resolutions Adopted at the Peace Congress
• The Anti-Slavery Meeting

Issue 37

Volume#: IV
Issue:# 37

Date: Thursday, September 4, 1851

Height:26-3/4"
Weight: 18-1/2"

Condition: Poor. Bad erosion along the right side of the paper, stain on left-hand side.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: John Thomas, corresponding editor.

Microform: Yes

Lead Stories:

• Land Freedom - Unalienable Homes for the Millions
• The Slave Trade
• Practical Christianity
• Politics in Ohio
• Letters from Victor Hugo on American Slavery
• The Fugitive Slave Law Ripening
• Colonization and Henry Clay
• Emancipation in the West Indies
• Emancipated Slaves
• Toussaint L'Overture

Issue 40

Volume#: IV
Issue#: 40
Whole No. 196

Date: Thursday, September 25, 1851

Height:26-3/4"
Weight: 18-1/2"

Condition: Good condition except for perforation in the fold.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: JW penciled in the corner of the paper. John Thomas - corresponding editor.

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• African Colonization - The Other Side 
• Slavery in California
• Elihu Creswell's Will
• Census Statistics
• Slaveholding Piety
• Executions
• Death by the Garrote

Issue 44

Volume#: IV
Issue#: 44
Whole No. 200

Date: Thursday, October 23, 1851

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Good, other than a little foxing.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: 6.00 J.W. penciled in the corner; John Thomas - corresponding editor.

Microform: Yes

Lead Stories:

• 'Trying it on' in Syracuse
• The Slave-Trade -- Destruction of an American Slave-Steamer
• Indictments for Treason
• Liberty Party
• Sonora
• Another Arrest for Treason
• An American View of Colonization
• The Late Kidnapping Case
• Toronto Convention

Issue 45

Volume#: IV
Issue#: 45
Whole No. 201

Date: Thursday, October 30, 1851

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Poor. Erosion all the way through paper on top third crease.

Notes: John Thomas - Corresponding Editor

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• Speech of Hon. Horace Mann
• Judge Conkling's Decision in the Case of the Rescue of Jerry

Douglass' Paper Volume V

Issue 3

Volume#: V
Issue#: 3
Whole No. 211

Date: January 8, 1852

Height: 27"
Width: 19"

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories

• Speech of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher at the New York . . .
• Meeting of Colored Citizens
• An African Roscius

Issue 6

Volume#: V
Issue#: 6
Whole No. 214

Date: Thursday, January 29, 1852

Height:27"
Width: 18-1/4"

Condition: Misfolded. 1/8 top sheet missing at lower right corner.

Notes: John Thomas, Corresponding Editor

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• Individual Responsibility
• Soiree on Behalf of the Fugitives
• American Slavery
• Kidnapping and Murder
• Improvements in Electric Telegraphs
• One Million Dollars' Reward

Issue 8

Volume#: V
Issue#: 8
Whole No. 216

Date: Thursday, February 12, 1852

Height:25-3/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Good. Slight erosion on bottom left corner.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: John Thomas - Corresponding Editor

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• Fruits of the Agitation of Kossuth
• The Free Negroes and Colonization
• Meeting up of the Dublin A. S. Society
• The Horrors of Russia
• A Scene in Boston
• The Army System in Russia
• A Prayer for Hungary

Issue 9

Volume#: V
Issue#: 9
Whole No.

Date: Thursday, February 19, 1852

Height: 24"
Width: 19-3/4"

Condition: Good. Extra large issue, with fold on the right.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: John Thomas, Corresponding Editor

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• Philadelphia Correspondence
• Slave Trade and Slavery in Brazil
• The Heart of a Slaveholder
• American Slavery
• Resolutions of the Mass. Anti-Slavery Society
• The Slave Trade in the District of Columbia

Issue 10

Volume#: V
Issue#: 10
Whole No. 218

Date: February 26, 1852

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Fair. Shredding around edges.

Notes: John Thomas, Corresponding Editor

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Speech of Wendell Phillips, Esq.
• The New Constitution of France
• The Slave Trade

Issue 11

Volume#: V
Issue#: 11
Whole No. 219

Date: March 4, 1852

Height: 26-1/2"
Width: 18-1/4"

Condition: Fair. Bottom right corner missing.

Notes: John Thomas, Corresponding Editor

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• The Fugitive Slave Law
• Hunting for Freemen
• The Pro-Slavery Papers
• The Martyrs of Russia
• Kossuth and His Generals
• Intervention and Non-Intervention
• The Russian Empire

Issue 15

Volume#: V
Issue#:15
Whole No. 223

Date: April 1, 1852

Condition: Fair. Slightly worse than above copy.

Notes: DUPLICATE OF ABOVE ISSUE.

Volume#: V
Issue#: 15
Whole No. 223

Date: April 1, 1852

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Large piece missing from bottom right corner.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Jefferson and Slavery
• Government and Religion Subversive of Slavery
• Important Testimony to the Maine Law from a Minister-at-Large

Issue 21

Volume#: V
Issue#: 21
Whole No. 229

Date: May 13, 1852

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Good. Some erosion on left edge.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Mrs. Stanton's Address
• The Fatal Slave Case at Columbus
• The Fugitive Murderer

Issue 29

Volume#: V
Issue#: 29
Whole No. 237

Date: July 9, 1852

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Poor. Fading along the middle fold, staining in top left corner.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Dialogue Between a Slaveholder and the Bible
• Anti-Slavery Christians of the United States
• Letter from Jacob Lybrand

Issue 32

Volume#: V
Issue#: 32
Whole No. 240

Date: July 30, 1852

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Fair. Stain down the middle.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• From Our Brooklyn Correspondent
• Letter from William G. Allen
• A Word from Old Herkimer
• Case of an Escaped Slave

Issue 33

Volume#: V
Issue#: 33
Whole No. 241

Date: August 6, 1852

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Very good.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Colored Americans - Emigration to Jamaica
• Proceedings of the Convention at Ithaca

Issue 39

Volume#: V
Issue#: 39
Whole No. 247

Date: September 17, 1852

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Poor. Large stains and foxing.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Speech of Hon. Horace Mann of Mass.

Issue 47

Volume#: V
Issue#: 47
Whole No. 255

Date: November 19, 1852

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Good. Large stain on lower left side.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Marion, N.Y. written on top.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Reply of Henry Ward Beecher
• Life Among the Lofty

Issue 49

Volume#: V
Issue#: 49
Whole No. 257

Date: November 26, 1852

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Fair. A lot of staining across the top.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• The Life of Daniel Webster

Issue 50

Volume#: V
Issue#: 50
Whole No. 258

Date: December 3, 1852

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Fair. Stain on left side, foxing.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Slavery, the Crime and Curse of America
• Slavery in America - Escape of Slaves
• Colored Persons in Public Conveyance
• Slave Hunters in Lancaster

Douglass' Paper Volume VI

Issue 3

Volume#: VI
Issue#: 3
Whole No. 263

Date: January 7, 1852

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 18-1/4"

Condition: Good.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Slavery in the United States
• Slavery and the Slave Trade
• The Governor of Virginia on the Lemmon Slaves
• The Duchess of Sutherland's Address

Issue 11

Volume#: VI
Issue#: 11
Whole No. 271

Date: March 4, 1853

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Fair. Slight erosion and staining on left side.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• The Stafford House Address
• Graham vs. Uncle Tom
• Gerrit Smith's Nurse
• The Rescue Trials
• The Liberty Party
• The Heroic Slave

Issue 23

Volume#: VI
Issue#: 23
Whole No. 283

Date: May 27, 1853

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Very good.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society

Issue 27

Volume#: VI
Issue#: 27
Whole No. 287

Date: June 24, 1853

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Very Good

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: A name is written and crossed out right under Stephen Reeves.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• The Constitution and the Ballot-Box
• The Trainer Case

Issue 39

Volume#: VI
Issue#: 39
Whole No. 299

Date: September 16, 1853

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Very Good

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Whole World's Temperance Convention

Issue 40

Volume#: VI
Issue#: 40
Whole No. 300

Date: September 23, 1853

Height: 26"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Good

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Proceedings of the Whole World's Temperance Convention

Issue 49

Volume#: VI
Issue#: 49
Whole No. 309

Date: November 25, 1853

Height: 26-1/2"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Fair. A little staining.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Slavery: Colored National Convention
• Fugitive Slave Law
• Massachusetts Election
• Uncle Tom at Barnum's
• Shocking Scene at an Execution

Douglass' Paper Volume VII

Issue 2

Volume#: VII
Issue#: 2
Whole No. 314

Date: December 30, 1853

Height: 26"
Width:

Condition: Poor. Large piece of bottom right corner is missing.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: "5.00 JW" penciled in top left corner.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• An Examination of the Mosaic Laws of Servitude
• Clergymen of the Africo-Canadian Race

Issue 3

Volume#: VII
Issue#: 3
Whole No. 315

Date: January 6, 1854

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Poor. Large piece of bottom missing, very discolored.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• An Examination of the Mosaic Laws of Servitude
• The Slavery Question

Issue 4

Volume#: VII
Issue#: 4
Whole No. 316

Date: January 13, 1854

Height: 22-3/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Poor. Bottom section is missing

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• An Examination of the Mosaic Laws of Servitude
• Frederick Douglass and the Garrisonians
• Mass Meeting of the Colored Citizens of Chicago

Issue 6

Volume#: VII
Issue#: 6
Whole No. 318

Date: January 27, 1854

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Poor. Discolored and stained; piece of left side missing.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• An Examination of the Mosaic Laws of Servitude
• Frederick Douglass and the Garrisonians
• Mass Meeting of the Colored Citizens of Chicago

Issue 12

Volume#: VII
Issue#: 12
Whole No. 324

Date: March 10, 1854

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Fair. Large stain in top left corner and middle of paper.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Speech of William H. Seward on the Abrogation of the Missouri Compromise, in the Kansas and . . .

Issue 14

Volume#: VII
Issue#: 14
Whole No. 326

Date: March 24, 1854

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Fair. Large stains on paper.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Congress . . . First Session
• Land Reform and Gerrit Smith
• A Capital Reply to the South

Issue 19

Volume#: VII
Issue#: 19
Whole No. 331

Date: April 28, 1854

Height: 26-1/2"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Fair. A little stained.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• American Slavery
• Caution – Colored Lecturers
• An Illustration of Slavery

Issue 21

Volume#: VII
Issue#: 21
Whole No. 333

Date: May 12, 1854

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Poor. Discolored, eroded, stained.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: Has been laminated; two separate pages.

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• Speech of Gerrit Smith

Issue 30

Volume#: VII
Issue#: 30
Whole No. 342

Date: July 14, 1854

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Very Good.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Speech of Hon. Gerrit Smith
• Mrs. Margaret Douglass
• T. F. Meagher and James Haughton

Issue 42

Volume#: VII
Issue#: 42
Whole No. 354

Date: October 6, 1854

Height: 26-3/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Fair. Large piece of right side missing.

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Free Democratic State Convention
• Independent Mass Convention at Auburn

Issue 43

Volume#: VII
Issue#: 43
Whole No. 355

Date: October 13, 1854

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 18-1/4"

Condition: Good, except a lot of the right edge is missing.

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Imprisonment and Enslavement of British Colored Seamen

Issue 44

Volume#: VII
Issue#: 44
Whole No. 356

Date: October 20, 1854

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Good, except large section of right side is missing.

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• A Proposal to Introduce Slavery into Illinois – Its Advantages Discussed – Progress of the Slavery Cause
• American Slavery
• A Voice from Indiana
• The Syracuse Conventions

Issue 45

Volume#: VII
Issue#: 45
Whole No. 357

Date: October 27, 1854

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Good, except large section of right side is missing.

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Sermon by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
• The Domestic Slave Trade

Issue 46

Volume#: VII
Issue#: 46
Whole No. 358

Date: November 3, 1854

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Very good.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves.

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• The Fate of Sir Franklin and His Companions
• The Campaign in the Crimea
• The Great Bear and His Children
• General Cass’ Speech
• Chicago Kidnapping Case

Issue 50

Volume#: VII
Issue#: 50
Whole No. 362

Date: December 1, 1854

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Good. Slight shredding along right edge.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves.

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Legislation of India Respecting Colored People
• The Slave Trade
• Arrival of the Canadian
• Arrival of the Steamship Canada

Douglass' Paper Volume VIII

Issue 25

Volume#: VIII
Issue#: 25
Whole No. 389

Date: June 8, 1855

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Good. Large stain in top left corner.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves.

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Speech of John Mercer Langston
• Sudden Death of Slaveholder
• The Combat Thickens
• What Have They Gained?
• It Never Rains But It Pours

Issue 26

Volume#: VIII
Issue#: 26
Whole No. 390

Date: June 15, 1855

Height: 26"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Good. Large stain in top left corner.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves.

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• From Our Boston Correspondent
• Slavery and the Northern Churches
• Practical Abolitionism
• National Know Nothing Convention
• The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society

Issue 27

Volume#: VIII
Issue#: 27
Whole No. 391

Date: June 22, 1855

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Good. Large stain in upper left corner.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves.

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Proceedings of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
• Weighed and Found Wanting
• Religion Without Humanity

Issue 29

Volume#: VIII
Issue#: 29
Whole No. 391 [sic] (No. 393)

Date: July 6, 1855

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Good. Slight tear on left edge.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves.

Notes: William Oliver, Printer.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Remarks of William H. Seward on the Tariff Question

Issue 33

Volume#: VIII
Issue#: 33
Whole No. 397

Date: August 3, 1855

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Good.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• The Kansas Swindle
• Capt. Ford on the Stump!
• Policy of Restoring the Missouri Compromise
• Liberty or Despotism – A Letter from C. M. Clay
• A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner

Issue 36

Volume#: VIII
Issue#: 36
Whole No. 400

Date: August 21, 1855

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 19-1/4"

Condition: Fair. Some erosion along both edges.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves.

Notes: The wrong last name is written above Reeves.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Ethiop Before the Convention
• Letter from Oregon Territory
• Brother Jonathan Wanting Canada
• The Indiana Black Law

Issue 37

Volume#: VIII
Issue#: 37
Whole No. 401

Date: August 31, 1855

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 18-1/2"

Condition: Fair. Slight shredding.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves.

Notes: wrong last name is written above Reeves.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Letter from ‘Cosmopolite’
• Poems by Phillis Wheatley
• Prohibition in England
• The New Stride

Issue 44

Volume#: VIII
Issue#: 44
Whole No. 408

Date: October 19, 1855

Height: 26-1/4"
Width: 19"

Condition: Good. Some staining in upper left corner.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves.

Notes: William Oliver, Printer

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• U.S. Arctic Expedition
• The Judiciary
• Emancipation in Kentucky
• From Our New Haven Correspondent

Douglass' Paper Volume X

Issue 28

Volume#: X
Issue#: 28
Whole No. 496

Date: June 26, 1857

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Fair. Erosion on left side and top.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves.

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• State Temperance Convention
• Dr. Ross in 1835
• Letter from Joshua R. Gibbings

Issue 29

Volume#: X
Issue#: 29
Whole No. 497

Date: July 3, 1857

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Some erosion on left side.

Subscriber's Name: W. A. Reynolds, Esq.

Notes: 1500 penciled in on top.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• A Short Exercise for the Fourth of July

Issue 30

Volume#: X
Issue#: 30
Whole No. 498

Date: July 10, 1857

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Has been laminated.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Boston Correspondence
• Ichabod Pease: (A Colored Man)
• Dress Reform Convention
• Political Preachers
• Fatal Sunday Fracas in Virginia

Issue 31

Volume#: X
Issue#: 31
Whole No. 499

Date: July 17, 1857

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slight foxing, little erosion on right side.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• New Phase of the Slavery Question
• Wisconsin Republicanism
• The Devil’s Politics
• Late News From Kansas
• Convention of Colored Men
• Another Western Baptist University

Issue 32

Volume#: X
Issue#: 32
Whole No. 500

Date: July 24, 1857

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slight tearing along edges.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• The Claims of Dagon and of God
• Spirit of the M. E. Church

Issue 33

Volume#: X
Issue#: 33
Whole No. 501

Date: July 31, 1857

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slight tearing on top and on left side.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• From Our New York Correspondent
• From Our Philadelphia Correspondent
• Freedom of Speech in Kentucky

Issue 35

Volume#: X
Issue#: 35
Whole No. 503

Date: August 14, 1857

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Fair. Large amount of foxing along top half.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• Anniversary Celebration at Poughkeepsie
• Revival of the Slavetrade
• The Importation of Free Negroes
• Can Negros Pre Empt Lands?
• A Slave Whipped to Death

Issue 38

Volume#: X
Issue#: 38
Whole No. 506

Date: September 4, 1857

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slight erosion on top.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• Horrid Fate of Dr. Ross’s Slave
• The Southern Convention
• National Emancipation Convention

Issue 40

Volume#: X
Issue#: 40
Whole No. 508

Date: September 18, 1857

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• Preaching the Pure Gospel
• Who Killed Negro Suffrage?
• Speech on Hon. N. P. Banks

Issue 42

Volume#: X
Issue#: 42
Whole No. 510

Date: October 2, 1857

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Fair. Some foxing.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• The Cleveland Convention
• Three New States
• Politics in Minnesota
• Let Sectional Agitation Be Allayed
• A New Slave State
• Speech of Henry Wilson

Issue 48

Volume#: X
Issue#: 48
Whole No. 516

Date: November 13, 1857

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• The Exiled Negroes of Canada
• The Negroes of Hamilton and Chatham
• Memorial of the Colored Citizens of Wisconsin

Issue 52

Volume#: X
Issue#: 52
Whole No. 520

Date: December 11, 1857

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slight foxing.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• The Fugitive Slave Case in Brooklyn
• First Public Parade of the Liberty Guard
• The Mask Taken Off

Douglass' Paper Volume XI

Issue 20

Volume#: XI
Issue#: 20
Whole No. 540

Date: April 30, 1858

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Poor. Much erosion along left side.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: 15.00 penciled at top.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• The Lecompton Constitution for the Slave and Its Increase
• New York East Methodist Conference
• How Kansas Receives the News of the Defeat of Lecompton

Issue 21

Volume#: XI
Issue#: 21
Whole No. 541

Date: May 6, 1858

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Fair. Slight discoloration and some erosion on left side.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Speech of Senator Wade

Issue 22

Volume#: XI
Issue#: 22
Whole No. 542

Date: May 14, 1858

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Fair. Slight erosion along left side.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• Debate on the Negro Bill in the California Legislature
• The Slave Hunt – The Hunters Baffled.
• The Southern Convention
• The Illinois Democracy

Issue 23

Volume#: XI
Issue#: 23
Whole No. 543

Date: May 21, 1858

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Fair. Slight erosion along left side.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes

Lead Stories:

• Caucus of Members of the American Tract Society
• National Compensating Emancipation Society
• A Voice from a Colored Man
• The Last Slave

Issue 24

Volume#: XI
Issue#: 24
Whole No. 544

Date: May 28, 1858

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Erosion on left side.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No

Lead Stories:

• Substance of the Discourse

Issue 25

Volume#: XI
Issue#: 25
Whole No. 545

Date: June 4, 1858

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Fair. A lot of tearing on left-hand side.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• The Fire and Hammer of God’s Word Upon Slavery and Its Abettors

Issue 26

Volume#: XI
Issue#: 26
Whole No. 546

Date: June 11, 1858

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Fair. Erosion on left along with slight foxing.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• Very Important From Kansas
• Revival of the African Slave Trade by France
• Extract from a Speech by Wendell Phillips, Esq.

Issue 27

Volume#: XI
Issue#: 27
Whole No. 547

Date: June 18, 1858

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Erosion on left side.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• From the Hawaiian Islands
• The African Slave Traffic
• Progress of Emancipation in Russia
• The Gen. Lane and Jenkins Affair

Issue 28

Volume#: XI
Issue#: 28
Whole No. 548

Date: June 25, 1858

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slight tearing around edges.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• U. S. Senate – Special Session
• Re-Organization of Parties
• Our Next President
• The Fugitive Slave Law
• England and the United States

Issue 29

Volume#: XI
Issue#: 29
Whole No. 549

Date: July 2, 1858

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good, except for slight erosion on left side

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: There is a large illustration at the top of the paper (it is a picture of the new railroad for Broadway).

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• The Administration and Congress
• The Catholic Church and Slavery
• Mass Meeting of Colored Citizens in New Bedford
• A Kentucky View of Senator Sumner’s Case
• Dr. Kirk’s Platform

Issue 30

Volume#: XI
Issue#: 30
Whole No. 550

Date: July 9, 1858

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slight tearing along left side.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Judge Taney in Former Times
• The Republican Party and Slavery
• Exciting Times in the Canadian Parliament
• Lynch Law in Maryland – A Man and Woman Tarred and Feathered

Issue 31

Volume#: XI
Issue#: 31
Whole No. 551

Date: July 16, 1858

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Fair. Erosion and foxing.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: E. R. Woodhall crossed out on right side; Stephen Reeves written on left.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• Henry Ward Beecher’s Fourth of July Address at Brooklyn
• A Fourth of July Blast from Caleb Cushing
• A Plea for Slavery in London Times

Issue 32

Volume#: XI
Issue#: 32
Whole No. 552

Date: July 23, 1858

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slight tearing along left edge.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: 10.00 written in pencil, but erased, at the top.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• New York Central College
• Liquor and Libel
• A New Treaty on the Slave Trade

Douglass' Paper Volume XII

Issue 7

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 7
Whole No. 579

Date: January 28, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Fair. Bad erosion in top left corner.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: 10.00 penciled, but erased, on top.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• The World’s Anti-Slavery Movement – Its Heroes and Its Triumphs
• The Amistad Case – Interesting History

Issue 20

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 20
Whole No. 592

Date: April 29, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Fair. Discoloration and erosion along left side.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• The Oberlin Rescue Case
• Anti-Slavery Prayer Meeting
• Slave-Hunting
• Emigration to the West
• Conviction of Van Tuyl, the Kidnapper
• Improvements in the South

Issue 22

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 22
Whole No. 594

Date: May 13, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slight erosion on left side

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: 10.00 penciled, but erased, on top.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• A Slave Girl’s Narrative
• The Oberlin Rescue Case
• Them ‘For Fugitive Slaves Law’ Advocates
• Articles of the Philadelphia Indian Aid Association
• Slavery in Cuba

Issue 23

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 23
Whole No. 595

Date: May 20, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good, except for slight erosion along the left edge.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• The American Tract Society
• Church Anti-Slavery Society
• N. Y. Colonization Society
• The Ohio Rescue Cases

Issue 24

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 24
Whole No. 596

Date: May 27, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good, except for some erosion along left-hand edge.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• The Deceptive African Civilization Society
• The Oberlin Rescue Case

Issue 25

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 25
Whole No. 597

Date: June 3, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slight erosion along left side.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• Speech of Henry Ward Beecher

Issue 29

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 29
Whole No. 601

Date: July 1, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slight erosion along left side.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• Kidnapping in Pennsylvania
• Death of Dr. Bailey, Editor of the National Era
• Testimony of the Covenanters
• The True Position of the Republic Party to American Slavery
• Letter from Senator Douglas on the Presidency

Issue 30

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 30
Whole No. 602

Date: July 8, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Very Good

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• The African Civilization Society
• The Doy Trial
• New Hampshire on the Slavery Question
• Voice of the Free Will Baptists
• An Appeal

Issue 32

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 32
Whole No. 604

Date: July 22, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Very Good

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• The Deceptive African Civilization Society
• The Welcome at Oberlin
• The Kidnapping and the Oberlin Rescue Cases
• The Rescuers Resolves
• The M. E. Church and Slavery

Issue 34

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 34
Whole No. 606

Date: August 5, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Very good. Small rip in left top corner.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Dimmock Charlton
• Sermon at Tremont Temple by a Colored Preacher, Rev. J. S. Martin
• The Negro Has No Rights
• Anderson Jennings, The Slaveholding Christian
• A Correspondence on Slavery
• The Next House of Representatives

Issue 35

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 35
Whole No. 607

Date: August 12, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slightly darkened.

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• Religion of Reason
• Re-Opening the Slave-Trade
• Prof. Felton Denies That He Is a Spiritualist
• England and Slavery

Issue 36

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 36
Whole No. 608

Date: August 19, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Very Good.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• West India Emancipation
• The Late Horace Mann
• John Mitchell Gone Home
• Helper’s Impending Crisis of the South

Issue 37

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 37
Whole No. 609

Date: August 26, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Top right corner missing.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning. Scribbling on top left corner.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• Lord Brougham on West India Emancipation
• Another Slave Lost – The Union in Danger
• Reformed Presbyterian on the Slave Trade
• The Slave System of Missouri
• Crispus Attucks: Once a Slave in Massachusetts

Issue 38

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 38
Whole No. 610

Date: September 2, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• On the Fourteenth Query of Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia

Issue 42

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 42
Whole No. 614

Date: September 30, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Very Good.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• Slavery in Africa
• Senator Trumbull in Ohio
• Hayti [sic] and Colored Emigration
• Slavery Excitement in Texas

Issue 43

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 43
Whole No. 615

Date: October 14, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Very Good.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• Babylon’s Pride and Doom
• Letters from the Old World
• The Case of Dimmock Charlton

Issue 44

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 44
Whole No. 616

Date: October 21, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Very Good.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• The African Civilization Society
• Rev. J. W. Loguen as a Slave and as a Freeman
• The Underground Railroad Co.

Issue 45

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 45
Whole No. 617

Date: October 28, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Very Good. Slight tear in top left corner.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• The Insurrection in Virginia
• Who is Brown, the Leader?
• Form of Commission
• Constitution and Ordinance of the Provisional Government

Issue 46

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 46
Whole No. 618

Date: November 4, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slight discoloration.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Defense of William Still
• The Insurrection in Virginia

Issue 47

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 47
Whole No. 619

Date: November 11, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Very good.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• The Lesson of the Hour
• Old Brown and Gov. Wise

Issue 48

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 48
Whole No. 620

Date: November 18, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Very good.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Important Political Document – The Bates Manifesto
• Mrs. Child, Gov. Wise, and John Brown
• The Virginia Insurrection
• Will Rev. A. Pryne Answer?

Issue 49

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 49
Whole No. 621

Date: November 25, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slightly discolored.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Letters from William J. Watkins
• Letter to Gov. Wise
• A Newport Girl in a New Orleans Slave Pen
• Opening of the Anglo-African Reading-Room

Issue 50

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 50
Whole No. 622

Date: December 2, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Very good.

Notes: “J” crossed off on top, and S. Reeves written instead; has been shrink-wrapped and mounted on board so only front page is visible.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• The John Brown Invasion

Issue 51

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 51
Whole No. 623

Date: December 9, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Very good.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Execution of Freedom Martyr
• A Position of Difficulty

Issue 52

Volume#: XII
Issue#: 52
Whole No. 624

Date: December 16, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Small tear on upper right side.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• John Brown’s Invasion
• Robbery of the Mails by Authority
• Wendell Phillips in Philadelphia
• Our National Trophies

Douglass' Paper Volume XIII

Issue 1

Volume#: XIII
Issue#: 1
Whole No. 625

Date: December 23, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Some foxing.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• The Martyr’s Burial

Issue 2

Volume#: XIII
Issue#: 2
Whole No. 626

Date: December 30, 1859

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slight tearing on right edge.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: 15.00 penciled at top.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Slavery Liturgy
• John Brown Meeting in Detroit
• John Brown Meeting in Buffalo
• Victor Hugo on John Brown

Issue 10

Volume#: XIII
Issue#: 10
Whole No. 634

Date: February 24, 1860

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Fair. Discoloration and foxing.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• Struggle for Freedom
• Report on Personal Liberty

Issue 11

Volume#: XIII
Issue#: 11
Whole No. 635

Date: March 2, 1860

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Fair.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• A Struggle for Freedom
• Cincinnati Letter
• To the Friends of Humanity Everywhere

Issue 16

Volume#: XIII
Issue#: 16
Whole No. 639

Date: March 30, 1860

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slight tearing at top.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• The Senatorial Inquisition
• The Choctaw Mission
• Discovery of a New Cotton Region in Africa
• The Final Act in the Tragedy
• The Blind Negro Pianist
• Out of His Own Mouth

Issue 17

Volume#: XIII
Issue#: 17
Whole No. 640

Date: April 6, 1860

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Slight foxing.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• Hudson River Incidents
• The Halifax Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society
• A Radical Anti-Slavery Resolution in Congress
• Infamous Attempt to Kidnap Free Negroes from Chicago

Issue 18

Volume#: XIII
Issue#: 18
Whole No. 641

Date: April 1, 1860

Height: 22"
Width: 16"

Condition: Good. Small tear in top left corner.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: Yes.

Lead Stories:

• Exciting Scene in Congress
• Negro Burning
• The American Slaver Orion
• Letter From Mr. Loguen to His Former Mistress
• The War in Kentucky
• Abolition of Capital Punishment

Issue 22

Volume#: XIII
Issue#: 22
Whole No. 645

Date: May 11, 1860

Height: 22"
Width: 15 ½"

Condition: Good.

Subscriber's Name: S. Reeves

Notes: Published every Friday morning.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• The Garrisonian Ultras
• Rendition of Two Fugitive Slaves
• The Fugitive Slave Case at Troy
• The Negro-Market in Savannah
• Proposed New Territories

Douglass' Monthly Volume III

Issue VII

Volume#: III
Issue#: VII

Date: December 1860

Height: 13”"
Width: 9 ¾"

Condition: Fair. Triangle-shaped piece missing from right middle.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: pgs. 369-384

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Equal Suffrage Defeated
• Dr. Cheevek in Glasgow

Issue VIII

Volume#: III
Issue#: VIII

Date: January 1861

Height: 14"
Width: 9 ¼"

Condition: Good.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: pgs. 385-400

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• The Boston Mob of December, 1860

Issue IX

Volume#: III
Issue#: IX

Date: February 1861

Height: 13 ½"
Width: 9 ½"

Condition: Poor. Badly faded with much erosion on left side.

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: pgs. 401-416

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• The Union and How To Save It

Douglass' Monthly Volume IV

Issue III

Volume#: IV
Issue#: III

Date: August 1861

Height: 13 ½"
Width: 9 ¾"

Condition: Fair. Discolored with some rippage in the middle fold.

Notes: pgs. 497-512

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• The War and Slavery

Issue IV

Volume#: IV
Issue#: IV

Date: September 1861

Height: 13 ½"
Width: 9 ¾"

Condition: Good. Piece of left top corner missing.

Notes: pgs. 513-528

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• The Progress of the War

Subscriber's Name: Stephen Reeves

Notes: pgs. 401-416

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• The Union and How To Save It

Issue VII

Volume#: IV
Issue#: VII

Date: December 1861

Height: 13 ½"
Width: 9 ½"

Condition: Fair. Significant fold in the middle.

Subscriber's Name: Mrs. Isaac Post.

Notes: pgs. 561-576

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Memorial of the People to Congress
• The Situation
• The Approaching Congress

Douglass' Monthly Volume V

Issue III

Volume#: V
Issue#: III

Date: August 1862

Height: 13 ½"
Width: 9 ½"

Condition: Fair. Significant fold in the middle.

Notes: pgs. 689-804

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• The Slaveholders Rebellion

New National Era Volume I

Issue 45

Volume#: I
Issue#: 45

Date: November 17, 1870

Height: 26 ¾"
Width: 20"

Condition: Some staining on top.

Notes: Frederick Douglass – Editor.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Letters from the People
• National Labor Union
• Sentence of the Colored Cadet, J. W. Smith
• The President and Mr. Cox – Why Mr. Cox Left the Cabinet

New National Era Volume II

Issue 8

Volume#: II
Issue#: 8

Date: March 2, 1871

Height: 26 ¼"
Width: 20"

Condition: Poor. Very tattered and discolored.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• The Province of Biography
• Letter from Raleigh, N.C.
• A. T. Stewart As He Is
• Lincoln’s Birthday

Issue 11

Volume#: II
Issue#: 11

Date: March 23, 1871

Height: 26 ¾"
Width: 20"

Condition: Very good.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Notes: Frederick Douglass – Editor and Publisher.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• General Butler Declines to Serve on the Commission
• The Riots and Murder at Meridian, Mississippi
• Ku-Klux Raid in Rutherford County

Issue 16

Volume#: II
Issue#: 16

Date: April 27, 1871

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Good. Some foxing.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Notes: 10.00 penciled in top right corner.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Letter from Colorado
• Georgia
• The Ku-Klux Bill
• Santa Domingo – The Case Stated
• A Colored Public Man

Issue 25

Volume#: II
Issue#: 25

Date: June 29, 1871

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Very good. Slightly faded.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Notes: Frederick Douglass, Editor.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Sketch of the Hon. Geo. L. Mabson of North Carolina
• The Future of the Negro in America
• The Longshoremen of Baltimore
• Nasby on the New Departure
• The Count de Chambord
• Chase and Vallandigham

Issue 26

Volume#: II
Issue#: 26

Date: July 6, 1871

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Very good.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Notes: 10.00 penciled in top right corner.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Letter from Philadelphia
• Letter from Mississippi
• Educating the Negro
• The Civilization of the Halter
• Congressional Candidate

Issue 28

Volume#: II
Issue#: 28

Date: July 20, 1871

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Fair. Small hole in middle.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Notes: Frederick Douglass – Editor.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Letter from Vermont
• What Constitutes a Carpet Bagger
• The Riot in New York
• How a Political Bargain Is Said To Have Been Made Twenty Years Ago

Issue 39

Volume#: II
Issue#: 39

Date: October 5, 1871

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Good.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Notes: 5.00 penciled in top right corner.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Letter from Havana
• The Colored Convention
• The Ku-Klux Organizations
• The Last Intrigue
• Virginia State Republican Convention

Issue 47

Volume#: II
Issue#: 47

Date: November 30, 1871

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Very good.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Notes: Frederick Douglass – Editor, 10.00 penciled in top right corner.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Letter from Philadelphia
• Oberlin
• Letter from Mattoon, Ill.
• The Thunderer on General Grant’s Administration
• John H. Morris
• The Ku-Klux in Jail
• Renomination of General Grant
• The Victory of the People (re: Tammany)

Issue 48

Volume#: II
Issue#: 48

Date: December 7, 1871

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Good.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Notes: Frederick Douglass – Editor.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Letter from Denver, Colorado
• Letter from Richmond
• An Explanation
• Mr. Schurz on Civil Service Reform

New National Era Volume III

Issue 2

Volume#: III
Issue#: 2

Date: December 7, 1871

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Good.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Notes: Frederick Douglass – Editor.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Thaddeus Stevens
• Letter from Mississippi
• Letter from Washington
• Letter from Texas
• Equal Rights

Issue 3

Volume#: III
Issue#: 3

Date: January 25, 1872

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Fair. Staining in the creases.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner on Equal Rights, in the Senate, Monday, January 15, 1872

Issue 4

Volume#: III
Issue#: 4

Date: February 1, 1872

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Very good.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Notes: Frederick Douglass – Editor.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• John Jay
• Letter from Indiana
• The Assailants of the Civil Rights Bill
• Civil Rights
• Letter from Philadelphia
• Depugh vs. Protection

Issue 14

Volume#: III
Issue#: 14

Date: April 11, 1872

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Fair. Small hole in middle; shredding along right edge.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Notes: 10.00 penciled in at top.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Letters to the People – No. 2
• Letter from Florida
• Letter from Arkansas
• Letter from a Black Woman
• The Story of Captain Boone
• The Indian Territory

Issue 19

Volume#: III
Issue#: 19

Date: May 16, 1872

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Fair. A lot of discoloration.

Notes: Frederick Douglass – Editor.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• The Board of Health and the Colored Churches
• Lincoln University
• Mixed Schools Allas Social Equality

Issue 26

Volume#: III
Issue#: 26

Date: July 4, 1872

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Fair. Tearing in the center.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Notes: Frederick Douglass – Editor.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• A Converted Greeleyite
• Swindling Royalty
• Grant or Greeley
• The Sunday Question
• Andrew Johnson Defines His Position
• Good Girl

Issue 39

Volume#: III
Issue#: 39

Date: July 4, 1872

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Fair. Discolored, tearing on top

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Letter from Arkansas
• The Colored Democracy in Convention
• The Political Situation

New National Era Volume IV

Issue 13

Volume#: IV
Issue#: 13

Date: April 3, 1873

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Poor. Discolored and tattered. Portions missing or crumpled along creases.

Subscriber's Name: A. Post.

Notes: Lewis H. Douglass and J. Sella Martin, Editors.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Personnel of the Mississippi Legislature
• Letter from Ohio
• Equal Rights
• Letter from Arkansas
• Anti-Slavery Mass Meeting in Wyandotte
• Preparing for Defeat
• Senator Sumner
• A Visit to Sebastopol

Issue 15

Volume#: IV
Issue#: 15

Date: April 17, 1873

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Fair. Right edge slightly shredded, slightly discolored.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Notes: 5.00 penciled in top right corner.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Letter from Ohio
• Letter from Mississippi
• Letter from Macon
• Recollections of Frederick Douglass

Issue 18

Volume#: IV
Issue#: 18

Date: May 8, 1873

Height: 27"
Width: 20"

Condition: Fair. Badly discolored and stained.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Letter from Our Cincinnati Correspondent
• A Brilliant Wedding
• Letter from Texas
• Letter from Boston

New National Era Volume V

Issue 3

Volume#: V
Issue#: 3

Date: January 22, 1874

Height: 26 ¾"
Width: 20"

Condition: Badly discolored.

Subscriber's Name: Amy Post (faded).

Notes: Title changed to New National Era and Citizen. Lewis H. Douglass, Editor.

Microfilm: No.

Lead Stories:

• Communications from the States and Territories
• The Agricultural Land Scrip and the Colored People
• Hon. R. B. Elliott
• Colored Children and the School