The American Freedmen's Aid Commission
Contributors: Shipherd, Jacob R. (Jacob Rudd), 1836-1905, author
Published: 1865
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Freedmen; United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln); Civil rights; Equality before the law; History; United States; Abolitionists; United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands; Education; African Americans; Antislavery movements; Social reformers; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Other titles: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879) 
Description: 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."
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title devised by cataloger.

Manuscript is typeset.