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The Emancipator (newspaper)

American anti-slavery newspaper

Summary

American anti-slavery newspaper

Field	Value
name	The Emancipator
image	Genius of Universal Emancipation - 1833 nameplate.jpg
caption	(nameplate)
Genius of Universal Emancipation
Vol. 3, No. 12 (Whole No. 288)
(third series)
October 1833
type	Weekly newspaper
owner	American Anti-Slavery Society (1833–1836)
Liberty Party (1840–1850)
founder	Arthur Tappan
editor	Joshua Leavitt (1840–1848)
founded
political_position	Abolitionist
language	English
ceased_publication
publishing_city	New York City (1833–March 1844)
Boston (1842–1850)
publishing_country	United States

Genius of Universal Emancipation Vol. 3, No. 12 (Whole No. 288) (third series) October 1833 Liberty Party (1840–1850) Boston (1842–1850) 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.

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. The Emancipator's first editor was Charles Wheeler Denison.

African-American sales agents selected to represent the new publication included:

David Ruggles, New York City, who was the general agent
John D. Closson, Newark, New Jersey
Thomas Van Rensslear, Princeton, New Jersey
Abraham Doras Shadd, Pennsylvania
John Carlisle, Pennsylvania

On October 25, 1835, in a nationally publicized spectacle, a Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, grand jury issued a true bill against Robert G. Williams, agent and publisher of The Emancipator, for allegedly "circulating seditious pamphlets in Alabama" ... "tending to excite our slave population to insurrection and murder." On November 14, 1835, the Alabama Governor, John Gayle demanded that New York Governor William Learned Marcy extradite Williams, "a fugitive," to stand trial. Marcy refused.

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, 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. 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

	1848–1850	Henry Wilson, followed by Lucius Edwin Smith

Publication name

Nov. 17, 1848–Dec. 26, 1850	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.}}

Publishers

1849–1850	Wilson & Bent – Henry Wilson and John Bent, publishers in Boston, August 23, 1849 – December 26, 1850

Gallery

File:Arthur_Tappan.jpg|Arthur Tappan File:Lundy.jpg|Benjamin Lundy File:Theodore_Dwight_Weld.jpg|Theodore Dwight Weld File:Joshua_Leavitt_by_Mathew_B_Brady_&_Studio_circa_1860.jpeg|Joshua Leavitt File:James_McCune_Smith.jpg|James McCune Smith File:1883_ElizurWright.png|Elizur Wright File:Lewis_Tappan_portrait.jpg|Lewis Tappan File:John_Greenleaf_Whittier_BPL_ambrotype,_c1840-60-crop.jpg|John Greenleaf Whittier File:Samuel_E._Sewall.jpg|Samuel Edmund Sewall File:Henry_Brewster_Stanton.gif|Henry Brewster Stanton File:William_Ellery_Channing,_poet;_nephew_of_the_preacher.jpg|William Ellery Channing File:Portraits_of_William_Stevens_Robinson,_ca.1860-1866.(28398043311).jpg|William Stevens Robinson File:Henry_Wilson,_VP_of_the_United_States.jpg|Henry Wilson File:The disappointed abolitionists LCCN2008661783.jpg|David Ruggles and others confronting John P. Darg (center) File:Abraham_D._Shadd.jpg|Abraham Doras Shadd

Extant holdings, re-prints, and digital facsimiles

The Emancipator (–1834) ::
The Emancipator, and Journal of Public Morals (1834–1835) :: The Historical Society of Wisconsin (microfilm 1966); :: Gale (online);
The Emancipator (1833–1848) :: Gale (online);
The Emancipator (1835–1840) :: Filmed from the Schomberg Collection (1967 microfilm);
The Emancipator (1845–1848) :: NewsBank (online); :: Gale (online);
Emancipator and Free American (1842–1844) :: Gale (online); :: (microform);
Emancipator and Weekly Chronicle (1844–1845) :: Filmed from the New York Public Library (microfilm);
Emancipator and Free Soil Press :: NewsBank (online); :: Gale (online);
Emancipator & Republican :: Microfilm; :: Gale (online); :: Serials Solutions (online);

References

Notes

Citations

References

[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022216/ "About ''The Emancipator'' (Boston) 1845–1848,"] [[Library of Congress]]
[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030399/ "About ''The Emancipator'' (New-York) 1835–1841,"] [[Library of Congress]]
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Mielnik, Tara Mitchell. (1 January 2010). "The Emancipator". [[University of Tennessee Press]].
''Boston Post,'' August 16, 1849, p. 2 (accessible ''via'' [https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-post-aug-16-1849-p-2/ Newspaperarchive.com], subscription required)
"New York and the National Slavery Problem," by Leo H. Hirsch, Jr., ''[[The Journal of Negro History]],'' Vol. 16, No. 4, October 1931, pp. 454–473, {{jstor. 2713872
"The Fight Against the Gag Rule: Joshua Leavitt and Antislavery Insurgency in the Whig Party, 1839–1842," by [[James M. McPherson]], PhD (born 1936), ''[[The Journal of Negro History]],'' Vol. 48, No. 3, July 1963, pps. 177–195 {{jstor. 2716339
26, 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
"Refuge of Oppression," "''[[The Liberator (newspaper). The Liberator]],'' January 23, 1836, p. 1 (accessible ''via'' {{URL. https://www.newspapers.com/image/34584538. Newspapers.com, subscription required)

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