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American Freedmen's Aid Commission

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Holograph, signed.Manuscript is typeset.This handbill recounts the founding of the American Freedmen's Aid Commission, lists its officers and organizational structure, and documents its stated purpose as "the redemption of the freed people from the degradation into which slavery has plunged them, that they may become thoroughly FIT for complete citizenship."
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Correspondence Ephemera Handbills
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. African Americans
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Correspondence
  6. Education
  7. Equality Before The Law
  8. Freedmen
  9. History
  10. Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877)
  11. Slaver
  12. Social Reformers
  13. United States
  14. United States Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands
  15. United States President (1861 1865 : Lincoln)
  16. United States. 15th Amendment

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