Benjamin Lundy Newspaper feature article

The Rights of All Vol. 1 No. 1 29 May 1829 New York, obtained through Ancestry.com. Date puts in in the public domain. This article about Benjamin Lundy is from the Journal of the Times reprinted May 29 1829 in the New York newspaper. The Rights of All (May 1829 to 1830) was an African American abolitionist newspaper, founded in New York City by Samuel Cornish, a black Presbyterian minister and antislavery activist. The Rights of All replaced Freedom's Journal, the nation's first African American newspaper, which had been founded by Cornish together with John Russwurm. In launching The Rights of All, Cornish reemphasized the opposition to the American Colonization Society. It had about 800 subscribers, but despite the support, the journal survived less than a year. Likewise, Jornal of the Times only survived for a year. It was published H.S. Hall in Bennington, VT 3 Oct 1828 to about July 1829.