21 Sep 1833
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Newspaper
Bristol Gazette
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1833
Page
1
The Bristol Gazette announces annual and quarterly payment options with two dollar annual subscription and five dollars at year end. Single copies cost six cents, ads run one dollar per square for three weeks and twenty cents per subsequent insertion. Notices require payment and letters to the proprietor are accepted with postage paid.
The excerpt portrays enslaved Black workers and enslaver dynamics with dialect and vivid, painful imagery. It presents a protracted scene of coercion, intimidation, and economic control under a planter figure named Goramity, with overseers and white workers complicating the social order. The piece conveys resistance, manipulation, and the precarious life of laborers under brutal regimes.
Eales reports Gen Valenett defeated insurgent General Valades with captured ammo. Twelve counterfeiters tried. Ebenezer Gleason guilty of $20,000 in fake notes. Robbery of Providence money-pack involved seven English suspects. Yellow fever ravages New Orleans with high death toll and staff losses.
The city endures extreme heat and sparse rain as sickness looms with burials noted in Protestant and Catholic grounds. A brig Colson caught fire at India wharf, smothered by closing hatches, amid near collisions with other vessels.
An excerpt from the Female Advocate laments the loneliness of aged women. It compares time worn aging to an leafless tree and recalls how youth attracts crowds while time erodes beauty and companionship, leaving the elder isolated as friends pass away.
A lengthy moral treatise urges mothers to guard their daughters health over fashion. It condemns tight lacing and dress vanity while stressing anatomy knowledge and bodily welfare. The piece links ruined health to social pressures, urging vigilance from guardians and a virtuous home life.
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