Reconstruction

The Colored American

Augusta, Ga. · December 30, 1865

The first Black newspaper published in Georgia, founded by John T. Shuften eight months after the war ended. It lasted five issues. This is the third. Within weeks the Georgia Equal Rights Association had bought the press and renamed it the Loyal Georgian — the paper died, but the type kept printing.

Published

Augusta, Ga.

Run

1865–1866

This issue

December 30, 1865

Catalog no.

sn82014351

Read it at the Library of Congress

The scan opens at the Library of Congress, where you can zoom into the type and turn to the inside pages. Public domain.