National Anti-Slavery Standard

It published the essays, debates, speeches, events, reports, and anything newsworthy that related to the question of slavery in the United States and other parts of the world.

The paper only contained six columns, but its personal accounts of slavery helped express the feelings and moods surrounding the controversy for thirty years.

[2][better source needed][failed verification] The newspaper's founder, the American Anti-Slavery Society, was founded in 1833 to spread their movement across the nation with printed materials.

[4][failed verification] One activist that was featured most was Charles Lenox Remond, a free elite African American minister who traveled the country speaking out against slavery.

[6] Lydia Maria Child was also the editor of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, reviewed in the edition of February 23, 1861,[7] which is now widely regarded as an American classic.