The Anti-Slavery Bugle was anabolitionist newspaper published in Ohio from June 20, 1845, to May 4, 1861. The paper's motto was "No Union with Slaveholders".
The Anti-Slavery Bugle was first published inNew Lisbon, Ohio, (later renamed Lisbon) and moved after five issues toSalem, Ohio. That city was home to manyQuaker families and an active station on theUnderground Railroad, providing the paper with more subscribers. James Barnaby was the publisher of the paper and received support from theOhio Anti-Slavery Society, such asAbby Kelley. This allowed the paper to continue to be in circulation for 18 years and was shipped to other states, includingIllinois,Iowa,Indiana andWisconsin.
The paper stated its goal in the first issue: "Our mission is a great and glorious one. It is to preach deliverance to the captive, and the opening of the prison door to them that are bound; to hasten in the day when 'liberty shall be proclaimed throughout all the land, unto all inhabitants thereof."[1] In 1858, it featured the first publication ofFrances Harper's abolitionist poem "Bury Me in a Free Land". Later, the paper expanded its mission from anti-slavery topics to include advocacy for theWomen's Right Movement. It ran letters and speeches such asSojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?"