1865 anti-slavery Civil War newspaper Lincoln assassin JOHN WILKES BOOTH KILLED

  
1865 anti-slavery Civil War newspaper Lincoln assassin JOHN WILKES BOOTH KILLED. 1865 anti-slavery Civil War newspaper with "breaking news" - Abraham Lincoln assassin JOHN WILKES BOOTH is KILLED. SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE. ORIGINAL weekly anti-slavery NEWSPAPER, the.

(NY) dated April 29, 1865. This original anti-slavery newspaper contains 4 pages of news and editorials devoted to the anti-slavery movement. It contains an inside page "breaking news postscript" headlined: "THE ASSASSIN DISCOVERED AND KILLED" with a first report of the.

Killing of JOHN WILKES BOOTH, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. Very exciting "first report" of the "breaking news" in an anti-slavery newspaper of the tracking down and killing of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. This issue also contains prominent front page "stacked" headlines: LETTER FROM THE MURDERER OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN / Slavery Incarnated in the Assassin!

With the complete printing of a letter signed in type by John Wilkes Booth in which Booth reveals the reasons for his murder of President Abraham Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, and died by gunshot on April 26, 1865.

On April 14, 1865, Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head at point-blank range while Lincoln was watching a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. Booth fled the scene and was pursued by Union soldiers for 12 days through Maryland and Virginia. On April 26, 1865, Booth and his accomplice David Herold were trapped in a barn on a Virginia farm. Herold surrendered, but Booth refused and was shot by a soldier or by himself.

Booth died on the porch of the farmhouse a few hours later. The National Anti-Slavery Society published the National Anti-Slavery Standard as a weekly newspaper from 1840 through 1870 in Philadelphia and New York City. The National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, established in 1840 under the editorship of Lydia Maria Child and David Lee Child. The paper published continuously until the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1870. Its motto was Without Concealment-Without Compromise.

It not only implies suffrage rights for colored males, but also women's suffrage as well. It published the essays, debates, speeches, events, reports, and anything newsworthy that related to the question of slavery in the United States and other parts of the world. Its audience were the members of the American Anti-Slavery Society and abolitionists in the north. Its two key focuses in the elimination of slavery were religion and politics, which considered slavery as an evil institution.

Its strong religious appeal asserted that God was the only being that could end slavery. However, they did assign value to political action. The paper only contained six columns, but its personal accounts of slavery helped express the feelings and moods surrounding the controversy for thirty years.

It began being published during a time that the American Anti-Slavery Society was torn over tactics of how to go about emancipation. The newspaper's founder, the American Anti-Slavery Society, was founded in 1833 to spread their movement across the nation with printed materials. The National Anti-Slavery Standard and The Liberator became the official newspapers of the society. The paper featured writings from influential abolitionists fighting for suffrage, equality, and most of all emancipation.

One activist that was featured most was Charles Lenox Remond, a free elite African American minister who traveled the country speaking out against slavery. Other abolitionists included Frederick Douglass who gave powerful antislavery testimonies. This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper, NOT just a clipping or a page of it. Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description.

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