An abolitionist newspaper founded in 1820 is coming to a 21st-century digital audience, after more than 100 years out of print. The Boston University Center for Antiracist Research and Boston Globe ...

A 1932 facsimile of the first issue of the Emancipator, published on April 30, 1820 Public domain via University of Tennessee, Knoxville The abolitionist press, from the many newspapers edited by ...

The Emancipator, the country’s first abolitionist newspaper, has been resurrected more than 200 years after it was first founded in a project coordinated by Boston University and the Boston Globe to ...

Emancipator performed at Paradise Rock Club Wednesday. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Emancipator should not be good live. Or so I thought. With a discography filled with mellow, nuanced soundscapes ...

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) – Jonesborough is home to the first publication dedicated to the abolitionist movement named “The Emancipator.” It called for the freeing of slaves decades before the ...

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Deborah Douglas (left) and Amber Payne (right) are the co-Editors in Chief of The Emancipator, an abolitionist newspaper relaunching this April. The first abolitionist newspaper in the United States ...

Reimagining 19th-century antislavery newspapers to reframe today's conversations on racial justice. The Boston University Center for Antiracist Research and The Boston Globe’s opinion staff announced ...