HISTORICAL NEWS JOURNAL

POEMS
on Comic, Serious
and Moral Subjects
by Phyllis Wheatley

            Printed for J. French
                 bookseller (1784)

Ed. Note: We express our deep
sorrow at the death of Miss
Wheatley, who after an
unfortunate marriage to John
Peters (who neglected her and
her child), died a pauper, forced
to work in a boarding house to
provide for herself and her
family.

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     The Will

Among the Bequests of
George Fox, who Died Last
Year, are mentioned: 1 Negro
Man, 1 warming Pan, 1 old
looking glass, & 1 gun.

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     Wins Lottery,
     Buys Freedom

Newport Gardner, a slave in
Rhode Island, recently won
$2,000 in a lottery. The next
day Mr. Gardner bought himself
and most of his family.
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Collector's Sale

Let those who are careless
about the abolition of Slavery,
read the following advertisements:
Will be offered for public sale
Thursday next at Urqudart's
Tavern, in Friendship, one Negro
woman named Nelly, one girl
named Harriet, one boy named
William, and one named John
and three head of horses. Seized
and taken to satisfy county
taxes due for 1830 and 1831.
             ISRAEL DAVIDSON
              Maryland Republican
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Ran away, a NEGRO WOMAN
and two children: a few days
before she went off, I burnt her
with a hot iron, on the left side of
her face. I tried to make the letter
M.      Raleigh Standard
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Any person having sick Negroes,
considered incurable by their
respective physicians, and wishing
to dispose of them, Dr, Stillman
will pay cash......
                   Charleston Mercury




***The preceding were actual newspaper articles