Summary
Structured thematically around Freedom's Journal's coverage of major issues and events ranging from the abolition of slavery, self-help, and gender roles to the Haitian revolution and colonization, Bacon's analysis of the newspaper's content reveals the richness and depth of views that shaped the activism of African American leaders and white reformers of the late 182Os.
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Freedom's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper
Freedom's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper. Jacqueline Bacon. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. 375 pp. $80 hbk. $29.95 pbk.
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