The National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society. The paper reprinted this article from the Philadelphia Press published March 22, 1865 describing a conductor forcing two African American Union Army soldiers off a street car as they were trying to travel to the train station. This incident, declared the reporter, “will make the blood of many a reader burn with indignation,” asserting that “the insult to the uniform is plain even to those who do not care for the insult to the race.” The reporter further insisted that for the sake of the city’s reputation, “we demand that these men, who treat free citizens as slaves, should be taught that the spirit of slavery is banished from the North.” The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to the Union Army of the Potomac on April 9, 1865, just eight days after this article appeared in the National Anti-Slavery Standard.
National Anti-Slavery Standard. “Outrages on Colored Soldiers.” American Anti-Slavery Society, April 1, 1865. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://staging.americancenturies.org/collection/l05-063/. Accessed on August 24, 2025.
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