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After experiencing financial difficulties, the paper closed in 1873, though one scholar writes that it closed in 1869. Whether it ever reopened is not clear; the local black community believed that the paper never reopened after its 1873 closure, but some scholars say that the paper was reopened by
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The paper was "utterly opposed" to the social movement that sought to repatriate formerly enslaved people to Africa, and it voiced dissatisfaction with economic contracts being drawn up for enslaved people following the Civil War (which provided wages as opposed to land).
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and declared itself as the "Soldier's Organ". The paper did not actively disclose its editing teams; the bylines were largely of groups, including the Cincinnati Young Men's Literary and Publishing Company, not individuals. Among those who contributed to the paper were
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published in the city around this time, and ultimately around a dozen were published by 1900. Two members of the city's black community were
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Jones Ross, Felicia G. (1996). "Democracy's textbook: A history of the black press in Ohio, 1865–1985". In Suggs, Henry Lewis (ed.).
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Martin, Noel (2001). "Early printing and publishing in Cincinnati". In Cornell, Alice M. (ed.).
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The wars of Reconstruction: The brief, violent history of American's most progressive era
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Art as image: Prints and promotion in Cincinnati, Ohio
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In 1863, Yancy, Woodson, and others established the
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African American newspaper
Cincinnati
Ohio
American Civil War
Cincinnati
Ohio
American Civil War
African American newspapers
William H. Yancy
Thomas Woodson
reverend
Palladium of Liberty
Disfranchised American
African Americans serving during the Civil War
Joseph Carter Corbin
George Washington Williams




Woo 2020




Woo 2020
Martin 2001
Jones Ross 1996
Rothrock 1971

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