This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Debtors and printers in a solemn revival of duty
In this mixed miscellany a dramatic scene from Pocahontas frames moral exhortation on paying debts to printers. A Rahway style sermon urges honesty and punctual debt settlement, praising the printer as mind’s gatekeeper and warning of doom for nonpayment. The piece blends tales of Jim Crow origins and Civil War era temperance to spotlight ethical conduct and social debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rahway
Satan
The
New York Mirror
New Orleans Picayune
Thomas D. Rice
Rice
Kemble
Talma