The Accessible Archives database has recently expanded its coverage of Nineteenth-Century African American newspapers to include full-text access to articles from the following:

Freedom’s Journal (New York, N.Y.), 1827-1829

The Colored American (New York, N.Y.), 1837-1841

The North Star  (Rochester, N.Y.), 1847-1851

Frederick Douglass Paper (New York, N.Y.), 1851-1855

The National Era (Washington, D.C.), 1847-1860

Provincial Freeman  (Toronto, Canada), 1854-1857

The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, Pa.), 1861-1902, lacking 1892.

Accessible Archives contains full-text access to comprehensive primary source material found in leading historic periodicals and books, with eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records.