Title
The Genius of Universal Emancipation
Coverage
Washington and Baltimore
Publisher
Benjamin Lundy
Date
July 1831
Subject
Third series, volume 2, number 3 (whole number 67, volume 12),
Description
The Genius of Universal Emancipation condemned slavery on moral and religious grounds, but like all other anti-slavery periodicals of the era, it advocated for gradual emancipation as well as colonization. In 1829, editor Benjamin Lundy hired William Lloyd Garrison, who revamped the layout of the paper. One of the regular features introduced by Garrison was “the Black List,” a column devoted to printing short reports of “the barbarities of slavery.”