The Emancipator (newspaper)

This article is about the anti-slavery newspaper established in 1833. For the anti-slavery newspaper named in 1820, see The Emancipator (1820). For the 21st-century online newspaper, see The Emancipator (website).

The Emancipator
(nameplate)
Genius of Universal Emancipation
Vol. 3, No. 12 (Whole No. 288)
(third series)
October 1833
TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s)American Anti-Slavery Society (1833–1836)
Liberty Party (1840–1850)
Founder(s)Arthur Tappan
EditorJoshua Leavitt (1840–1848)
FoundedMarch 1833; 191 years ago (March 1833)
Political alignmentAbolitionist
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publicationDecember 26, 1850; 173 years ago (1850-12-26)
CityNew York City (1833–March 1844)
Boston (1842–1850)
CountryUnited States

The Emancipator (1833–1850) was an American abolitionist newspaper, at first published in New York City and later in Boston. It was founded as the official newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS). From 1840 to 1850, it was published by the Liberty Party; the publication changed names several times as it merged with other abolitionist newspapers in Boston.

Contributors to the paper included Lewis Tappan (of the Amistad case), James McCune Smith (who also co-edited The Colored American), Joseph Cammett Lovejoy, Samuel Edmund Sewall, Henry Brewster Stanton, Horace Edwin Smith, William Ellery Channing, and William Stevens Robinson.[1]

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