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THE FIRST AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.
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good it was doing for the cause of Abolition. The exact date of its suspension it seems impossible to ascertain.

Mr. Russwurm's career as an Afro-American journalist, was soon cut short after the suspension of his paper. He was captured by the Colonization Society and sent to Africa. Many notices and comments on Mr. Russwurm's work and upon him as a man, appeared in The Colonization Journal of 1839.