CHAPTER VI.
THE PEOPLE'S PRESS AND THE MYSTERY.
THE Clarion was followed next by an effort at journalism in the publication of The People's Press, by Thomas Hamilton and John Dias, about 1843. This publication, like many succeeding ones, lasted only a few months.
Mr. Hamilton was book-keeper in the office of The Evangelist, at the time when a desire to be an editor first took control of him, which desire resulted in the publication of The Press.
There is a belief among some that this paper, for a while before its suspension, was known as The Anglo-African, but this must not in any way be connected with the later publication of "Hamilton's Magazine," and a paper known also as Anglo-African. Further mention will be made of Mr. Hamilton in a succeeding chapter.
The Afro-Americans, at this stage, evidently caught inspiration, wherever settled in the North, as to the duty of the hour. Those who were able, intellectually, found it their imperative duty to agitate through the medium of the Press, for but little could be accomplished by means of speech; even at the North.
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