National Enquirer (1836)


The National Enquirer was an abolitionist newspaper founded by Quaker Benjamin Lundy in 1836, sponsored by thr Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. It was renamed the Pennsylvania Freeman after John Greenleaf Whittier took over as editor in 1838. It was to have been moved to the new abolitionist building, Pennsylvania Hall, but had not yet been when that building was destroyed by arson.