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- Title
"SAMBOS' AND "BLACK CUT-THROATS": PETER PORCUPINE ON SLAVERY AND RACE IN THE 1790's.
- Authors
Scherr, Arthur
- Abstract
Great Britain-based William Cobbett is known primarily for his activities as a radical publisher and political activist in England during the first three decades of the nineteenth century who defended rights of the poor and denounced Great Britain's corrupt, aristocratic governing circles. During the 1790s, however, as an English expatriate newspaper editor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cobbett upheld reactionary ideas and shuddered at the U.S. democratizing trends. His daily newspaper Porcupine's Gazette, initiated in March 1797, adopted a spiritedly ultraconservative stance, protesting extremes to which the raw republic carried individual freedom.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; COBBETT, William, 1763-1835; ACTIVISTS; PUBLISHING; EXPATRIATE authors; SOCIAL movements; NEWSPAPER publishing
- Publication
American Periodicals, 2003, Vol 13, p3
- ISSN
1054-7479
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/amp.2004.0007