Rare anti-slavery newspaper from the West Coast...
Item # 543098Sorry, but this item is no longer available. Please be in touch at info@rarenewspapers.com if you would like to be placed on a want list or are interested in a potential alternate issue.
December 09, 1876
THE PACIFIC APPEAL, San Francisco, California, December 9, 1876
* Very rare ant-slavery title
* From the Old West
Printed under the title & dateline at the top of page 2 is: "Original Organ of the Colored Citizens of the Pacific States and Territories".
As noted in the website: antislavery.eserver.org: "The Pacific Appeal was a short-lived African American newspaper that commenced publishing in San Francisco under that name in 1862. It was the successor of The Mirror of the Times, another African American newspaper established in the same city in 1855. The newspaper’s politics in this first volume were adamantly abolitionist and vigorously supported the war against slavery...Later during a bitter split, Bell and others would accuse the publisher, Peter Anderson, of overlooking the slavery issue and becoming an accommodationist...".
An advertisement on the back page to "Subscribe To The PACIFIC APPEAL" has text which includes: "...immediate successor of the Mirror of the Times, which was established by colored men in San Francisco in 1855...has long been regarded on the Pacific Coast...as a reliable index of the doings of the colored citizens of the Pacific States...logical discussion of all questions appertaining to the welfare & progress of all citizens without regard to race, color, condition, etc...." with more (see).
Four pages, in nice condition except for a small hole in first leaf (see). Never bound nor trimmed.
* Very rare ant-slavery title
* From the Old West
Printed under the title & dateline at the top of page 2 is: "Original Organ of the Colored Citizens of the Pacific States and Territories".
As noted in the website: antislavery.eserver.org: "The Pacific Appeal was a short-lived African American newspaper that commenced publishing in San Francisco under that name in 1862. It was the successor of The Mirror of the Times, another African American newspaper established in the same city in 1855. The newspaper’s politics in this first volume were adamantly abolitionist and vigorously supported the war against slavery...Later during a bitter split, Bell and others would accuse the publisher, Peter Anderson, of overlooking the slavery issue and becoming an accommodationist...".
An advertisement on the back page to "Subscribe To The PACIFIC APPEAL" has text which includes: "...immediate successor of the Mirror of the Times, which was established by colored men in San Francisco in 1855...has long been regarded on the Pacific Coast...as a reliable index of the doings of the colored citizens of the Pacific States...logical discussion of all questions appertaining to the welfare & progress of all citizens without regard to race, color, condition, etc...." with more (see).
Four pages, in nice condition except for a small hole in first leaf (see). Never bound nor trimmed.
Category: Post-Civil War
