The Southerner (Tarboro', Edgecombe Co., (N.C.))
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
577 issues from 1852 to 1867, published in Tarboro, North Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
George Howard (1798-1863) established the first incarnation of the newspaper, a weekly Democratic publication, in 1824 in Halifax, N. C. as the Free Press. Two years later, Howard relocated to Tarboro and continued the paper, under the names North-Carolina Free Press and North Carolina Free Press retaining the name until 1833, when he changed it to Tarborough Free Press. On January 2, 1835, Howard published the first issue of the newspaper under the title Tarboro’ Press noting its change from four to six columns and explaining that the change in title and addition of columns was “in order to keep pace with the ‘spirit of improvement,’ which has obtruded itself even within the borders of this State.” Under the new title plate, Howard continued to spell the town’s name as Tarborough. In January 1848, Howard returned to spelling the full name of the town in the newspaper’s title, publishing as the Tarborough Press.
In the early 1850s, Howard’s son, George Howard, Jr. (1829-1905), began assisting with the editorial work and eventually took over the publication. The Howards focused the bulk of editorials on agriculture and commerce and dedicated roughly fifty percent of the space to advertisements for goods and services. In January 1852, the paper began the year with a new name, the Southerner as sectional strife placed the country on a course for war.
Believing another editor could better cover the pending presidential campaign and election, the Howards sold the paper to…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Tarboro, North Carolina, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress