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The Christian recorder
History Commons: African American Newspapers - the 19th Century Available from 1861 until 1902. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Series:
- African American Newspapers
- Standardized Title:
- Christian recorder (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1861 : Online)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Methodists--Pennsylvania--Newspapers.
- Methodists.
- African Methodist Episcopal Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Newspapers.
- African Methodist Episcopal Church (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Physical Description:
- Weekly
- 1861-1902
- Other Title:
- African American newspapers: the 19th century
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, [Pa.] : Rev. Elisha Weaver.
- Notes:
- Issues for <June 12, 1869-Dec. 24, 1891> called also <new ser.,no. 1-763>.
- Issues for Jan. 4, 1862-<June 20, 1868> called also whole no. 52-<377>.
- Description based on: New ser., v. 1, no. [2] (Jan. 19, 1861).
- Published general conference eds.: Christian recorder, May 9-23, 1872 in Nashville, Tenn., and: Daily Christian recorder, May 3-26, 1880 in St. Louis, Mo.
- "Published by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, for the Dissemination of Religion, Morality, Literature and Science." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Christian Recorder was first published in 1854 under the editorship of the Rev. J.P. Campbell. This early edition was short lived, however, and in 1861, under the editorship of Elisha Weaver, the New Series, Volume 1 began. Under this new leadership the Recorder was introduced into the South by distribution among the Negro regiments in the Union army. Benjamin T. Tanner became editor in 1867 and was followed in that position in 1885 by the Rev. Benjamin F. Lee who served until 1892. The Christian Recorder embodied secular as well as religious material and included good coverage of the black regiments together with the major incidents of the Civil War. The four-page weekly contained such departments as Religious Intelligence, Domestic News, General Items, Foreign News, Obituaries, Marriages, Notices and Advertisements. It also included the normal complement of prose and poetry found in the newspapers of the day.
- Supplements accompany some issues.
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