This section of our digital exhibition features excerpts from The Boston Gazette (1774) and The Cherokee Phoenix (1828). Printed in the north and south of eastern North America, these newspaper editions speak to ideas of mobility, revolution, commerce, governance, self-determination, and national character. Collectively, these items present the newspaper as a conversational medium that spreads knowledge. These items also reveal how people navigated forces of exploitation, coercion, and assimilation and how they defined freedom within systems shaped by racial hierarchies.
