National Anti-Slavery Standard 1841 edition
*The first issue of the National Anti-Slavery Standard was published on June 11, 1840. The Standard was a weekly newspaper published concurrently in New York City and Philadelphia.
This was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society; its editors were Lydia Maria Child and David Lee Child. It published essays, debates, speeches, events, reports, and anything newsworthy related to the question of slavery in the United States and other parts of the world. Its audience was the members of the Society and abolitionists in the north.
Its two key focuses in the elimination of slavery were religion and politics, which considered slavery as an evil institution. Its strong religious appeal asserted that God was the only being that could end slavery. However, they did assign value to political action. The paper only contained six columns, but its personal accounts of slavery helped express the feelings and moods surrounding the controversy for thirty years. It was published when the American Anti-Slavery Society was torn over tactics of how to go about gaining emancipation.
The paper was published continuously until the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in 1870. Its motto was "Without Concealment—Without Compromise." It not only implies suffrage rights for colored males but also women's suffrage as well. It contained Volumes with number 50 published on April 16, 1870.
