An original September 11, 1801 newspaper with two physical pages with printing on both sides (4 pages total) measuring approximately 16 1/2 x 10 inches containing an extremely descriptive article of a slave mutiny on the Ohio river (on their way to Tennessee) and murder of two belligerents, a slavery runaway, and the sale of 15 slaves as part of an estate. Fine detail with creasing and detached pages as pictured. This is a historical artifact with no negative intentions. Thanks for looking.
The District of Columbia, which became the nation’s capital in 1791, was by 1862 a city of contrasts: a thriving center for slavery and the slave trade, and a hub of anti-slavery activity among abolitionists of all colors. Members of Congress represented states in which slavery was the backbone of the economy, and those in which slavery was illegal. One result of the intense struggle over slavery was the DC Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862, passed by the Congress and signed by President Abraham Lincoln. The act ended slavery in Washington, DC, freed 3,100 individuals, reimbursed those who had legally owned them and offered the newly freed women and men money to emigrate. It is this legislation, and the courage and struggle of those who fought to make it a reality, that we commemorate every April 16, DC Emancipation Day. source: emancipationdotdcdotgov
For ten years, beginning with its first issue on October 31,
1800, the four-page, tri-weekly National Intelligencer and Washington
Advertiser of Washington City, edited by the high-minded ex-Philadelphian
Samuel Harrison Smith, served as the semiofficial outlet for the
administration's official papers and Congressional debates, verbatim.
Jefferson's annual addresses were printed in it, along with the letters,
reports and other documents that the president had given to Congress at the
time his speech was read. The
circulation of the National Intelligencer during its early years is unknown,
but at the turn of the new century the average run for the most popular
newspapers was about six or seven hundred per issue. However, each copy was
normally read by many additional readers, especially in coffee houses, taverns,
and in "reading rooms" that maintained files of newspapers from all
parts of the country. At that time, when
newspapers commonly depended upon one another for news outside the region
served by any single paper, the National Intelligencer quickly became the
primary source for objective, up-to-date reports of political news from
Washington. It was Jefferson's only direct link with the people. Source: lewis-clarkdotorg