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Freedom honored! ; Hon. Hugh McCollough on emancipation ; Correspondence

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Freedom honored! ; Hon. Hugh McCollough on emancipation ; Correspondence

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A speech by James M. Townsend, an African American and a recorder in the U.S. General Land Office, reported here by Magnus L. Robinson, editor of the Weekly Leader in Alexandria, Virginia, on the 28th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Townsend speaks about African American pride and the quest for political and civil equality, especially in the South. Contains a letter from Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln, reviewing race relations in U.S. with particular attention to the franchise for blacks.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
LC copy has inscriptions in ink on p. [1]: Emancipation Celebration January 1st 1891 at Alexandria, Virginia; Magnus L. Robinson. On p. [3]: Speech of Hon. James M. Townsend, recorder U.S. Land Office. Wash. D.C.

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01/01/1891
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alexandria
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