There is a note that “clerical and sectarian” haters of the paper are circulating rumors of its pending failure, including statements that it lost 200 subscribers on January 1st. The response…
Category: <span>Liberator finances</span>
Here is a notice to subscribers, indicating that the paper will continue to publish the names of subscribers who are delinquent fifteen months or more.
It becomes apparent the paper needs money. It is clear that the Editor would prefer not to have to accept advertisements, but will do so. Urges especially advertisement of books,…
After reflecting on his life and the abolition cause, Garrison appeals for people to exert themselves on behalf of the paper, if they have found it helpful, and then ends…
January 7, 1842 “To the friends of the Liberator”, a notice signed by Francis Jackson, Samuel Philbrick, Ellis Gray Loring, Sm.Bassett, and Edmund Qincy, dated December 31, 1841 Indicates that,…
December 2, 1853 Mary M. Gould, Secretary of the Ladies Anti-Slavery Sewing Circle, of Cincinnati, sends one hundred dollars as a contribution to the Liberator.
December 19 and 26, 1862 “The war has not only crippled the circulation of the newspaper press generally, but is has produced such a scarcity in the materials of making…
January 2, 1863 Several letters from subscribers are printed here, giving encouragement to the editor, after his concerns about the price increase, expressed in the last editions of 1862.
December 30, 1864 Here is notice that the subscription price of the paper will be increased, from $3 to $3.50 per year.