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The Ohio Black Press in the 19th Century

Prospectus

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Prospectus

Description

“Feeling the stern necessity of a medium through which to speak, hear and be heard, to defend the right and denounce wrong, touching our interest more especially in this city, where unoffending colored citizens are shamefully wronged, we assume the responsibility of publishing the Citizen. We hope to receive encouragement from every friend of Truth, Justice, Law, and Humanity. We promise our columns shall not be made a vehicle for the ventilation of personal spite or puffery; we are not the organ of any individual idea, further than for the good of our common cause. The Citizen will be more a paper of facts and secular news than a literary journal. We aim to be straightforward, modest and respectful, co-operating in every good work, especially that of ameliorating the condition of a proscribed class who have been so shamefully wronged by our fellow-country men.”

Publisher

Colored Citizen, Saturday, November 7, 1863

Rights Holder

Public Domain

Bibliographic Citation

Courtesy of the University of Cincinnati Library