Prosperity and Politics: Taking Stock of Black Wealth and the 1843 Convention

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This page features several views on the convention before and after it was held. Click through the images below to browse news coverage of the 1843 National Convention of Colored Citizens.

Print newspaper clipping from 1843, titled "For the Liberator. Colored Convention." — “For the Liberator. Colored Convention.” *The Liberator*, 18 July 1843. From Gale. *19th Century U.S. Newspapers*. ©2008 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. Reproduced with permission by Cengage

Print newspaper clipping from 1843, titled "The Colored Convention." — “The Colored Convention.” *The Liberator*, 25 August 1843. From Gale. *19th Century U.S. Newspapers*. ©2008 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc.
Reproduced with permission by **Cengage**

Print newspaper clipping from 1843 — *Cleveland Daily Herald*, Issue 52. 26 August 1843. From Gale. *19th Century U.S. Newspapers*. ©2008 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc.
Reproduced with permission by Cengage.

Prosperity and Politics: Taking Stock of Black Wealth and the 1843 Convention

An exhibit in the collection of the Colored Conventions Project

CITATION: Patterson, Sarah. “Prosperity and Politics: Taking Stock of Black Wealth and the 1843 Convention.” Colored Conventions Project. 2014. https://coloredconventions.org/black-wealth.

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