Friday, June 20, 2014

HISTORICAL NEWS JOURNAL

PUBLISHED
THIS DAY
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Dissuasion from
        The
SLAVE TRADE*
by James Swan

"No Country can be
  called Free where
There is one Slave"

*This Special Edition is
published at the Earnest
Desire of the Negroes at
Boston.
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"African Poetess of the
  REVOLUTION"

       POEMS        
           on
VARIOUS SUBJECTS
   RELIGIOUS AND
          MORAL
                by
         PHILLIS
        WHEATLEY

With an Introductory LETTER
      by the Author's Master

                  SOLD by
     Messrs. Cox and BERRY
              at their store in
   KING STREET, BOSTON
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**The preceding was an actual newspaper article as printed on February 28, 1778.

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