Hi George and Everyone--I do not know about all of these papers, but
Frederick Douglass's paper is widely available both on microfilm and in a
searchable CD-ROM version (which many university libraries have available).
This version also includes the COLORED AMERICAN and two or three other
African American newspapers.

Best, Judy Wellman

> From: George Thompson <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:25:44 -0400
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> Subject: black newspapers on microfilm
>
> Judith Wellman writes to ask about the availability of several antislavery
> newspapers from before the Civil War.  On this and related themes, I will add:
>
> Bobst Library, NYU, bought 2 reels of microfilm from the Library of Congress
> containing Frederick Douglass' Paper between 1851 and 1855.  Is the paper from
> 1856 to 1860 available on film?
>
> We bought the film produced by the NYPL of the New York Age, covering from
> 1905 to its end.  Are the years 1887 -1904, or any part of them, available on
> film?
>
> We bought the NYPL's film of the New York Amsterdam News, from 1922 and after.
> Are the years 1919-1921 available on film?
>
> We bought the NYPL's film of The Negro World, from 1923 to its end.  Are the
> years 1917-1922, or any part of them, available on film?
>
> If these papers have not been microfilmed for the years in question, do they
> exist anywhere in paper?  It's particularly hard to believe that FD's Paper
> isn't around.
>
> GAT
>
> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ.
> Pr., 1998.