HISTORICAL NEWS JOURNAL

BLACK CHURCH GROWS
        FROM EXCLUSION

Philadelphia, Pa., Feb., 1793 - Two highly respected
Philadelphia men of color, Richard Allen and Absalom
Jones, have announced plans to establish black churches
here.
     Despite strong opposition from white Methodists,
they have purchased and broken ground on two lots...
For several years after the late war with Britain, black
Methodists worshipped harmoniously with whites in
Philadelphia's leading Methodist church. But they
found themselves increasingly scorned and insulted.
First required to sit around  the outer walls of the
church they had helped build, they were one day
expelled to the upper gallery...
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MASONS IN BOSTON

     White exclusion has also prompted Prince Hall
of Boston to establish the Black Masons. At first
refused admission to the White Masons of
America, he joined a British lodge. After the war,
in 1784, Mr. Hall formed this country's first black
masonic lodge.
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                     MASONS
Attend a Meeting on Thursday
Next, Mar. 7, 1793,
        
     To be discussed:

WHAT SHOULD BE the
ATTITUDE of  BLACK
MASONS towards WHITE
AMERICAN MASONS?

Any Black man wishing to join
the AFRICAN GRAND LODGE
is WELCOME TO ATTEND

                                    Prince Hall
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                      THOMAS 
                     JEFFERSON
                           Slave
                           Owner

February, 1793 - Despite his misgivings about
slavery, Thomas Jefferson himself owns over
200 slaves. An often quoted reason for his
reluctance to free them is that he might face
financial ruin by doing so...

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     SUGAR
    OR OTHER
PRODUCTS OF
SLAVE LABOR

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SIX POUNDS
   REWARD

The following ad was printed
yesterday by the Federal
Gazette.
RAN-AWAY on the sixth of
September last a FRENCH
NEGRO LAD, about eighteen
years of age, about five feet
high; has a mark on his left
cheek.

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***The preceding were actual newspaper articles