An Increasingly Untenable Position: The Kalamazoo Gazette and the Rise of Abolitionism in Southwestern Michigan
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Authors
Yaniglos, Daniel Seth
Issue Date
2006
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Thesis
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en_US
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My primary source, the Kalamazoo Gazette began operation in 1833 as the
Statesman from White Pigeon Michigan, with Mr. H. Gilbert as the primary
editor. The paper was Democratic and promoted the party's agenda and the
editor, Gilbert, was an influential local party leader. Newspapers in 19th century
America were political and engaged in active promotion of a particular agenda
and the party platform. In 1837 Gilbert moved the paper to Kalamazoo
Michigan, and changed the name to the Kalamazoo Gazette. He operated the
paper with periodic co-editors until he finally sold the paper in 1845 to Mr.
Volney Hascal. Hascal operated the paper until 1862 with occasional co-editors,
and was instrumental in the Gazette's success and growth in Kalamazoo. The
Gazette was the regional paper that carried governmental laws, proclamations,
and land sales, this meant increased readership. This gave the paper a distinct
advantage in the Kalamazoo market over the rival Kalamazoo Telegraph, founded
in 1844 by George Torrey that promoted first the Whig and then Republican
Parties, because the Gazette received government printing contracts. This
allowed the Democratic Gazette to thrive in Kalamazoo that was dominated, with
the rest of Western Michigan, by the Whig party.
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