Title
The Port Folio
Coverage
Philadelphia
Publisher
Joseph Dennie
Date
July 21, 1804
Subject
Volume 4 number 29
Description
The Port Folio, was established in January 1801 by the “lay preacher” Joseph Dennie, who wrote as Oliver Oldschool. Dennie’s strong Federalist views appealed to a broad audience, and the magazine quickly became an invaluable repository of social and political comment. His rabid anti-Jeffersonian diatribes prompted federal authorities to prosecute him unsuccessfully for sedition. In 1802–03, The Port Folio published a series of poems that called out Jefferson’s relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings.