"The Colored citizen is designed to give birth to ideas, impetus to thought, and stimulus to industry and virtue among the colored people of this state. ... We earnestly and respectfully ask you on receipt of this address, to send your name and one dollar, as a subscriber to the Colored citizen."

Signed: James Lynch, editor and proprietor. Jackson, Miss.

James Lynch, preacher, educator, politician, and journalist, commenced publication of the Colored citizen's monthly in late 1868, to instruct the black Mississippian in the duties of citizenship. Presumably this appeal was made ca. Feb. 1870, shortly before the newspaper ceased publication. Cf. Black apostles at home and abroad, Boston, 1982, p. 161-188.

Text in three columns; printed area measures 25.1 x 17.8 cm.

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