African American Newspapers

African American Newspapers delivers a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Its coverage is rich in firsthand accounts of events; analyses of issues; articles on business, world travel, and religion; descriptions of abolitionist campaigns, freedman aid, and other social-reform efforts; and biographies, statistics, essays, poetry, prose, and advertisements.

Publications include

• Freedom’s Journal, 1827-1829
• The Liberator, 1831-1865
• The National Era, 1831-1860
• The Colored American, 1837-1841
• National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1840-1870
• The North Star, 1847-1851
• Frederick Douglass’ Paper, 1851-1855
• The Christian Recorder, 1854-1902
• Provincial Freeman, 1854-1857
• Douglass’ Monthly, 1858-1863
• The Freedmen’s Record, 1865-1874
• The Negro Business League Herald, 1909
• The Canadian Observer, 1914-19
• The Weekly Advocate, 1837

Manually rekeyed for accuracy and accessibility

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a valuable tool for digitizing newspapers and other printed materials. However, older materials with nonstandard fonts can pose challenges for OCR technology.

Our North American collections are manually rekeyed to ensure 99% accuracy. This meticulous approach not only makes the content easy to read but also meets accessibility standards for the visually impaired. Also, we've structured the articles to enable richer text and data mining and to make citing easier.