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Title
Front page of The Liberator
Date
1844
Description
"A colored person is a free citizen, with the same rights, privileges and duties as any other." Former Salem mayor Stephen Clarendon Phillips solicited a legal opinion from Boston-based attorney Richard Fletcher on racially separate schools. Fletcher unequivocally rejects the concept of “separate but equal.” Phillips presented the opinion at the Salem School Committee meeting on March 23, 1844, to bolster his argument for integration. In July, the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator reprinted a statement from Phillips, the Salem resolutions, and Fletcher’s words for its 3,000 subscribers, 75 percent of whom were Black. The publication functioned like an abolitionist bulletin board, broadcasting news of the events in Salem to a national audience.
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