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[By the arrival of the Africa]

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  • Title: [By the arrival of the Africa]
  • Date: 11 January 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00973
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 11 January 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Cassandra Jannel Simms Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "[By the arrival of the Africa]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00973.xml (TEI)
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By the arrival of the Africa we have three days later intelligence from Europe. The chief item is the relief of Lucknow. The Indian Mutiny1 is virtually ended, the soldiers of Great Britain are covered with glory, and Great Britain’s rule will doubtless soon be more firmly established than ever in those possessions which a short time since seemed in some danger of passing from her grasp. Touchingly the London News brings a fearful phase of this Indian Mutiny before the reader. Says the News—“It is understood on unquestionable authority, that there are several ladies now in Calcutta who have undergone such unspeakable degradation that they obstinately refuse to give their names, preferring that their relations in England should suppose them dead.”

Notes:

1. The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 was a failed rebellion by Indian soldiers, known as sepoys, against the rule of British East India Company. [back]

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