| Franklin Repository, "A Native African," February 22, 1860 Summary
When an African who spoke little English arrived in Baltimore, the Repository editor picked up the report from the Baltimore
Sun. Republican editors published accounts of the potential enslavement of free Africans and hinted at the reopening of the
slave trade.
EXCERPT:
"Having reached the age of twenty years, Pabla, as the man calls himself, obeyed the custom of his land and took five wives,
with all of whom he says he lived happily. . . An idea has lately haunted him that some of his own color wanted to sell him
as a slave, and having been born a free man, he became terribly excited by fear."
Full-text web version of newspaper  Points of Analysis to this Data:
 "Franklin County's papers spent more ink--almost all of it negative--on its nearly two thousand free blacks than Augusta did
on its five thousand enslaved people."
Citation: Key = E053
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