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Addresses and ceremonies at the New Year's festival to the freedmen, on Arlington Heights : and statistics and statements of the educational condition of the colored people in the southern states, and other facts

Addresses and ceremonies at the New Year's festival to the freedmen, on Arlington Heights : and statistics and statements of the educational condition of the colored people in the southern states, and other facts

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Addresses to freedmen of Washington, D.C., in January 1867, mostly by local citizens, concerning the present state of freed slaves in the South and North. Also contains reports on African Americans education in Washington, D.C., in southern states, and in major black universitites; congressional acts of emancipation and universal suffrage; and advances in African American employment in the Washington, D.C., area.
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01/01/1867
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arlington
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Library of Congress
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