1851 antique NATIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY STANDARD ny NEWSPAPER slave whipping penalty For Sale

1851 antique NATIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY STANDARD ny NEWSPAPER slave whipping penalty
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This listing offers an original 1851 abolitionist newspaper, approximately large folio newspaper size when unfolded, from the influential National Anti-Slavery Standard, published in new-york on Thursday, July 17, 1851 (Volume XII, No. 8). The Standard was one of the leading anti-slavery newspapers in the United States and a central voice of the organized abolitionist movement during the decade immediately preceding the Civil War.

This issue dates to the highly charged period following the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, when national conflict over slavery enforcement, resistance, and sectional division intensified sharply. The surviving sheets contain dense abolitionist editorial commentary, reform correspondence, and movement reporting typical of the paper’s role as a weekly communication hub for anti-slavery activists.

Notable visible content includes a substantial editorial titled “Pro-Slavery — Has Not the North Wronged the South?” examining sectional hatred and slavery ideology in the antebellum United States. The issue also contains striking “Miscellaneous News” items, including a report on the penalty for slave whipping in Virginia involving the fatal beating of an enslaved person, providing powerful primary-source documentation of brutality within the slave system. Additional notices reference a Colored Mechanics’ convention held in Atlanta, Georgia, alongside other reform-era political and social reports.

Authentic period piece related to family, historyor local heritage - well-suited for historical collections, genealogical /genealogy research, or museum acquisition.Vintage or Antique.

CONDITION: Wear and tears as shown. See listing description and photos.











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