The Emancipator
- ISBN-10
- 0932807852
- ISBN-13
- 9780932807854
- Category
- Abolitionists
- Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- The Overmountain Press
- Author
- Elihu Embree
Description
Elihu Embree and his family were Quakers who were committed to the cause of abolishing slavery in the American South. Over a few short years, he raised the public consciousness in East Tennessee and achieved wide recognition with the publication ofThe Emancipator, the first periodical in the United States devoted solely to the abolitionist cause. The seven issues of the monthly publication are reproduced here, together with a brief history of Elihu and the Embree family’s migration from France to Washington County, Tennessee.
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