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Prosperity and Politics: Taking Stock of Black Wealth and the 1843 Convention<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

By 1843, free and fugitive Black delegates and attendees had gathered at national colored citizens conventions for over a decade to organize for social, political, educational, and labor rights. On August 15, fifty-eight delegates and a lively audience convened at Park Presbyterian Church in Buffalo, New York to consider \u201ctheir moral and political condition as American citizens.\u201d Undoubtedly, the 1843 National Colored Convention is best known for the Black reverend and activist, Henry Highland Garnet\u2019s speech, \u201cAddress to the Slaves of the United States\u201d and the heated debates about slave insurrection that ensued.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Curator:<\/strong> Sarah Patterson, PhD candidate in English and Co-Coordinator, the Colored Conventions Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate Researchers:<\/strong> Nathan Nikolic, Gwen Meredith, Caleb Trotter, Gerti Wilson, and Ariana Woodson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional contributions:<\/strong> Exhibit Migration 2025-2026 by Christiana Dillard, University of Pennsylvania; Eunice Toh, Penn State University; and Lauren Cooper, Penn State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cover image <\/strong>Dr. Charles Fraser and Dr. Sarah Loguen-Fraser\u2019s pharmacy in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. Photo courtesy of Department of Historical Collections, Health Sciences Library, SUNY Upstate Medical Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special thanks<\/strong> to Gale, a Cengage Company, and Accessible Archives Inc.\u00ae for granting permission for the use of the materials from 19th Century U.S. Newspaper<\/a><\/em> and African American Newspapers<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Credits Curator: Sarah Patterson, PhD candidate in English and Co-Coordinator, the Colored Conventions Project. Undergraduate Researchers: Nathan Nikolic, Gwen Meredith, Caleb Trotter, Gerti Wilson, and Ariana Woodson. Additional contributions: Exhibit Migration 2025-2026 by Christiana Dillard, University of Pennsylvania; Eunice Toh, Penn State University; and Lauren Cooper, Penn State University. Cover image Dr. Charles Fraser and Dr. Sarah Loguen-Fraser\u2019s pharmacy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3091,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4548,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/4548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}