A History of Black Print

> Mathew Carey,[2] a prominent local publisher and bookseller, who had emigrated to America a decade earlier, wrote and published an account of the epidemic, A Short Account of the Malignant Fever. Despite praising Allen and Jones, Carey suggested that local African Americans had not only caused the outbreak, but that some had stolen from abandoned homes and otherwise profited from it. Carey’s pamphlet was published in three editions in as many weeks.

This sounds so much like what we might read on the Internet now. Of course today's propaganda pamphlets can get a much larger audience, much more quickly.

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

by Frederick Douglass

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frederick-douglass...

"Upon finishing his speech to the six hundred or so mostly white abolitionists, Douglas was met with “a universal burst of applause” and seven hundred copies of the above-featured pamphlet were subscribed to on the spot."