Emancipation address : our duties and how to discharge them : delivered in the town hall of Salem, Va., January 2, 1893, under the auspices of the Emancipation Club of Salem, with which was joined the Emancipation Club of Roanoke, Va
Summary
Williams, an African American professor in a normal school, speaks about the duties of African Americans to their race, the state, and the nation. Among these are the need for good home and family life, for education, and for religion and morality, and the need to acquire property and to establish black-owned businesses and to be patroitic citizens.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
LC copy has inscription in ink on t.p.: Salem Va. 1893.
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Date
01/01/1893
Location
salem
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain