19th-Century Newspapers - Colored Conventions Research Project - Occidental College

Search Tips

Searching African American Historical Newspapers offers tips for searching a variety of historical newspaper databases.

Digitized Weekly Anglo-African accessible through the Center for Research Libraries
Type Weekly Anglo-African into the search box to retrieve digitized issues. (coverage July 1859-July 1860)
Digitized Weekly Anglo-African in Clotel (UVA) database accessible through the UD Library
Click VIEW EBOOK in DELCAT Discovery. Click ENTER CLOTEL, choose SCHOLARLY APPARATUS in the top tool box, and then select THE WEEKLY ANGLO-AFRICAN. (coverage Dec. 15, 1860-March 16, 1861)
Weekly Anglo-African on microfilm in the UD Library
Microfilm no. 2210 (coverage 1859-1860), reel 5/title 3; Microfilm no. 2258 (coverage 1861-1862)

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Instructions for saving and printing long newspaper articles.