Celebration by the Colored people's educational monument association in memory of Abraham Lincoln
Subtitle: on the Fourth of July, 1865, in the presidential grounds, Washington, D. C.
Publisher: McGill & Witherow, printers
Published: 1865
Place of publication: Washington, D. C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Description: Record of the first national celebration by African Americans in the U.S. Contains letters from well-wishers such as Frederick Douglass, Salmon P. Chase, and Charles Sumner; an oration by William Day, a New York lawyer, on freedom and equality and on slavery in the US; and a long poem on slavery by John Pierpont.