The Differences Slavery Made: A Close Analysis of Two American Communities

Newspapers in Franklin were little different from those in Augusta, but the orientation of the Repository and Transcript as the lead Republican paper set the county apart from its neighbors and from those in the South.

Newspapers in Franklin championed agricultural production as the means to future wealth and prosperity.

Staunton newspapers bore visual and textual markings of slavery, as they regularly contained ads for runaway slaves, slave agents, and slave sales.

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