HAMILTON, Thomas (1823-1865) and HAMILTON, Robert (1819-1870), editors. The Anglo-African Magazine. 2 issues (incomplete run). New York: Thomas Hamilton, 1859-1860.

Small 4to. 2 issues numbering: 
Vol. 1, No. 5, May 1859; Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1860. (Some soiling, tears to flyleaf of 1860 issue) Original publisher's wrappers (soiling, toning, covers of May 1859 issue partially detached).

The Anglo-African was founded by brothers Thomas and Robert Hamilton in New York City in 1859, its aim to counter the more pacifistic abolitionist periodicals of the time with articles, stories, and poems which illuminated the harsh conditions under which slaves and even free African-Americans in the North endured. The paper was particularly noted for its coverage of the Dred Scott Decision and John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. The Anglo-African ceased publication after the March 1860 issue and its successor the Weekly Anglo-African did the same a year later. The January 1860 issue features a poetic tribute to John Brown, entitled "John Brown at Harper's Ferry," by Joseph Murray Wells.