[1] The Signal of Liberty was published weekly from April 1841 to 1848 in Ann Arbor by Rev.

It was printed on Broadway Avenue on the second floor of Josiah Beckley's mercantile shop.

[1][2] The purpose of the newspaper was to encourage anti-slavery sentiment by sharing the stories of the lives of enslaved people.

They interviewed freedom seekers who left their slaveholders and passed through or settled in Michigan.

Abolitionist Elijah Parish Lovejoy was killed in Alton, Illinois, by a pro-slavery mob in the fall of 1837 after he refused to give up his printing press.