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Provincial freeman.
History Commons: African American Newspapers - the 19th Century Available from 1854 until 1857. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Series:
- African American Newspapers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American newspapers--Databases.
- African Americans--History--19th century--Sources--Databases.
- Local Subjects:
- African American newspapers--Databases.
- African Americans--History--19th century--Sources--Databases.
- Physical Description:
- Updated monthly
- 1854-1857
- Place of Publication:
- Malvern, PA : Accessible Archives
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Complete texts of major 19th century African American newspapers. Includes first-hand reports of events and issues of the day, as well as biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements.
- Notes:
- Title from about archives page (viewed on June 23, 2003).
- The Provincial Freeman was devoted to antislavery, temperance and general literature, and was affiliated with no particular political party. Its prospectus stated, "it will open its columns to the views of men of different political opinions, reserving the right, as an independent Journal, of full expression on all questions or projects affecting the people in a political way; and reserving, also, the right to express emphatic condemnation of all projects, having for their object in a great or remote degree, the subversion of the principles of the British Constitution, or of British rule in the Provinces." This weekly newspaper was edited and published in the Province of Canada West (now called Ontario) where many fugitive slaves from the United States had settled. The first number, intended as a specimen, was issued at Windsor, dated March 24, 1854. The editor was Samuel A. Ward. Mary Ann (Shadd) Carey helped found the Provincial Freeman. She became the first black North American female editor and publisher, with the purpose of transforming black refugees into model citizens. In July, 1856, the office was seized for debt and publication was suspended until November 25, when issue number 16 was published. The volume was closed with issue number 49, August 22, 1857.
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