The Library Guide

The Library Guide
Author: Aurora Public Library (Aurora, Ill.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 1908
Genre: Public libraries
ISBN:

The Emancipator

The Emancipator
Author: Elihu Embree
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780932807854

Elihu Embree and his family were Quakers who were committed to the cause of abolishing slavery in the American South. Over a few short years, he raised the public consciousness in East Tennessee and achieved wide recognition with the publication ofThe Emancipator, the first periodical in the United States devoted solely to the abolitionist cause. The seven issues of the monthly publication are reproduced here, together with a brief history of Elihu and the Embree family’s migration from France to Washington County, Tennessee.