| Chambersburg Valley Spirit, "Court Week," April 20, 1859 Summary
Democratic editors regularly lampooned "Toad Island," the section of Chambersburg where many black citizens lived.
EXCERPT:
"We think it would not be difficult to make out as strong a complaint against it as against 'Toad Island.' the negroes of
that 'nuisance,' and other similar localities about town, regularly take possession of our Court House each session to have
their drunken fights fought over again and fixed up according to law! How ridiculous."
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 = E056
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