Captive Passage - Departure
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Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas

Captive Passage
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Freedom's Journal, New York, July 27, 1827
Founded on March 16, 1827 (the year slavery was abolished in New York State), Freedom's Journal was the first black-owned and -operated newspaper in the United States. A group of free black men in New York City launched it as a way to counter the often racist commentary published in the mainstream press. Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm were its editors.
Courtesy of the New-York Historical Society

Freedom's Journal, New York

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