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    National Response

     

    Newspapers and individual citizens across the nation reacted to the events in Southampton in a variety of ways, both publicly and privately. Responses ranged from indignation and horror to and sympathy and even satisfaction. Black and white adherents to the emerging abolitionist cause stressed the inevitability of the kind of large-scale rebellion that the slaves in Southampton County had effected and the culpability of southern slaveholders in the bloodshed. Other northerners offered their support to southern whites at such a time; some white southerners acknowledged these sentiments and voiced their appreciation.

    National Response

    Robert Montgomery Bird, August 27, 1831

    Charleston Mercury, August 29 and 30, 1831

    Fredericksburg Arena, September 9, 1831

    New York Journal of Commerce, September 10, 1831

    Niles Register, September 10, 1831

    Fredericksburg Arena, September 12, 1831

    New Orleans Bee, September 15, 1831

    New York Daily Sentinel, September 17, 1831

    Albany Argus, September 22, 1831

    Alexandria Gazette, September, 1831

    Ohio State Journal, October 20, 1831

    Richmond Enquirer, November 30,  1831

    Abolitionists

    Liberator, September 3, 1831

    William Lloyd Garrison to Laroy Sutherland, September 8, 1831

    Liberator, September 24, 1831

    Worcester Spy, September, 1831

    Liberator, October 1, 1831

    African Sentinel & Journal of Liberty, October 1, 1831

    James Forten to William Lloyd Garrison, October 20, 1831

    Liberator, October 29, 1831

    Background Image:

    Henry S. Tanner,  United States of America (Philadelphia, 1829), in David Rumsey Historical Map Collection