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Articles in the Brooklyn Eagle

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African American History

  • Frederick Douglass delivers lecture to the African Church in Brooklyn, "The Black Man and the War," February 20, 1863, page 2 read article, part 1; part 2
  • Fugitive Slave Law, October 30, 1850, page 2 read article
  • The Census (including runaway slaves), May 29, 1851, page 2 read article
  • "The Colored Voters and Booth, Roberts and Boggs," November 2, 1865, page 2 read article
  • "A Tempest in Weeksville: Colored Folks Object to a White Teacher," February 24, 1869, page 2 read headline; read article
  • "The Troubles in Weeksville," March 10, 1869, page 1 read article
  • "Emancipation Day: Celebration by Colored Persons at Myrtle Avenue Park," August 2, 1870, page 2 read article
  • "Weeksville," July 30, 1873, page 1 read article
  • "The Negroes In and Out of Politics," July 7, 1875, page 2 read article
  • "Slavery Here: Right in Brooklyn and Out on Long Island," December 29, 1891, page 2 read article
  • "Colored People Protest Against the Exclusion of Their Children From Public School No. 68," April 30, 1892, page 1 read article
  • "Flurry in Ft. Greene Place, Because a Negro Has Bought a Three Story House: Aristocratic Neighbors in a Panic," October 1, 1894, page 1 read article
  • Colonization Movement, "Negroes to Liberia," January 12, 1896, page 1 read article
  • "Garrison and His Times: The Liberator's Career Outlined By His Son," October 6, 1897, page 7 read article
  • "In Aid of the Negros: Meeting in Plymouth Curch Addressed by Dr. Rainsford and Booker T. Washington," February 13, 1899, page 9 read article