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Under the leadership of Samuel Adams, patriot propagandists deliberately and conscientiously kept the issue of slavery off the agenda as goals for freedom were set for the American Revolution.
By comparing coverage in the publications of the patriot press with those of the moderate colonial press, this book finds that the patriots avoided, misinterpreted, or distorted news reports on blacks and slaves, even in the face of a vigorous antislavery movement. The Boston Gazette, the most important newspaper of the Revolution, was chief among the periodicals that dodged or excluded abolition. The author of this study shows that The Gazette misled its readers about the notable Somerset decision that led to abolition in Great Britain. She notes also that The Gazette excluded antislavery essays, even from patriots who supported abolition. No petitions written by Boston slaves were published, nor were any writings by the black poet Phillis Wheatley. The Gazette also manipulated the...
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Patricia Bradley
Copyright 1998 by University Press of Mississippi
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Print-on-Demand Edition
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bradley, Patricia, 1941
Slavery, propaganda, and the American Revolution / Patricia Bradley
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 1-57806-052-4 (cloth : alk. paper)ISBN 1-57806-211-X (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. United StatesHistoryRevolution, 17751783Propaganda.
2. United StatesHistoryRevolution, 17751783Afro-Americans.
3. Press and propagandaUnited StatesHistory18th century.
4. Antislavery movementsUnited StatesHistory18th century.
5. SlaveryUnited StatesHistory18th century. I. Title.
E210.B73 1998
973.388dc21 98-12915
CIP
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Portions of the following have appeared in Slavery in Colonial Newspapers: The Somerset Case, Journalism History 12 (Spring 1985): 17, and The Boston Gazette and Slavery as Revolutionary Propaganda, Journalism Quarterly 72 (Autumn 1995): 58196.
Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution
My thanks go in several quarters: to Temple University for a Summer Research Award; to my university colleagues, with special gratitude to the faculty associated with the American Studies Program; to the University Press of Mississippi; to Marie F. Bradley; to my children, Anna C. Bradley and Colin C. Bradley; and to Laurien D. Ward, whose love and support made the book possible and to whom this volume is dedicated.
A | Almanac |
AWM | American Weekly Mercury (Philadelphia) |
BC | Boston Chronicle |
BEP | Boston Evening-Post |
BG | Boston Gazette |
Boston Gazette, or Weekly Journal | |
Boston Gazette, or Country Country | |
Boston Gazette, and Country Journal | |
Boston Gazette, or Weekly Advertiser | |
BNL | Boston News-Letter |
Boston Weekly News-Letter | |
BPB | Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser |
Boston Weekly Post-Boy | |
CC | Connecticut Courant (Hartford) |
Connecticut Courant, and Hartford Weekly Intelligencer | |
CG | Connecticut Gazette (New Haven) |
CG-NL | Connecticut Gazette, and the Universal Intelligencer (New London) |
CH | Christian History |
CJ | Connecticut Journal, and New-Haven Post Boy |
ConJ | Continental Journal (Boston) |
EG | Essex Gazette (Salem, Mass.) |
New-England Chronicle, or the Essex Gazette | |
EJ | Essex Journal, and Merrimack Packet, or the |
Massachusetts and New-Hampshire General Advertiser (Newburyport, Mass.) | |
Essex Journal, or the New-Hampshire Packet | |
FJ | Freemans Journal (Philadelphia) |
GG | Georgia Gazette |
GM | Gentlemans Magazine (London) |
HSP | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
IC | Independent Chronicle (Boston) |
MG | Maryland Gazette (Annapolis) |
MG&BN | Massachusetts Gazette and Boston News-Letter |
MG&BPB | Massachusetts Gazette and the Boston Post-Boy and |
Advertiser | |
MS | Massachusetts Spy, or Thomass Boston Journal |
Massachusetts Spy, or American Oracle of Liberty (Worcester) | |
NEC | New England Courant |
NEJ | New England Journal |
NEWJ | New-England Weekly Journal |
NJG | New Jersey Gazette |
NJJ | New Jersey Journal |
NLG | New-London Gazette |
NM | Newport Mercury, or the Weekly Advertiser |
NP | Norwich Packet, and the Connecticut, Massachusetts, |
New Hampshire, and Rhode Island Weekly Advertiser | |
NYEP | New-York Evening-Post |
NYG | New-York Gazette, and the Weekly Mercury |
NYJ | New-York Journal, or the General Advertiser |
PC | Pennsylvania Chronicle, and Universal Advertiser |
PEP | Pennsylvania Evening Post |
PG | Pennsylvania Gazette |
PJ | Pennsylvania Journal, or the Weekly Advertiser |
PM | Pennsylvania Mercury, and the Universal Advertiser |
PP | Pennsylvania Packet, or the General Advertiser |
ProvG | Providence Gazette |
RNY | Rivingtons New York Gazetteer |
SCAMG | South-Carolina and American General Gazette |
SCG | South-Carolina Gazette |
USC | United States Chronicle: Political, Commerical, and Historical (Providence, R.I.) |
VG-Dixon | Virginia Gazette |
VG-Dixon and Hunter | Virginia Gazette |
VG-Pickney | Virginia Gazette |
VG-Pickney and Dixon | Virginia Gazette |
VG-Purdie | Virginia Gazette |
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