Volume 1, Number 6. Volume 1, Number 7. Volume 1, Number 8. Volume 1, Number 9. Volume 1, Number Volume l 1, Number Volume 2, Number 2. Volume 2, Number 3. Volume 2, Number 4. Volume 2, Number 5. Volume 2, Number 6. Volume 2, Number 7. Volume 2, Number 8. Volume 2, Number 9. Volume 2, Number It sought to improve conditions for the over , newly freed black men and women living in the North. The newspaper broadened readers' knowledge of the world by featuring articles on such countries as Haiti and Sierra Leone.
As a paper of record, Freedom's Journal published birth, death and wedding announcements. To encourage black achievement it featured biographies of renowned black figures such as Paul Cuffee, a black Bostonian who owned a trading ship staffed by free black people, Touissant L'Ouverture and poet Phyllis Wheatley. To read black voices for the first time was powerful.
On the front page of the new paper the editors wrote: "We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us. The paper also covered international news of special interest to the community, such as events in Haiti and Sierra Leone. In addition, the paper featured biographies of black men and women, schools, jobs, and housing opportunities. It also listed weddings, births, and deaths. It was followed by no less than 24 other black newspapers in the years before the Civil War.
Current view of Church St. Samuel Cornish.
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