The Colored American Newspaper Founded by Samuel Cornish

Samuel Cornish, who had co-founded Freedom's Journal in 1827, launched The Colored American in 1837, extending his decade-long commitment to Black journalism and giving the free Black community a sustained editorial voice on abolition, civil rights, and community affairs. The paper ran until 1842 and published essays by leading Black intellectuals and activists including Lewis Woodson and Charles Lenox Remond. Cornish's continued newspaper work helped build a durable Black public sphere in antebellum America.