Program of the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society Convention
Subtitle: under the auspices of the Methodist Preachers' Meeting, Boston, Mass., Mondat November 21, 1892
Series: Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1892
Place of publication: Boston, Mass.?
Language: eng
Subjects: Freed persons; History; Conventions and public meetings; Bromfield Street M.E. Church (Boston, Mass.)
Description: Title on first page, program of events and speakers on pages [2-3], with map on page [4]: "Map of Illiteracy in the United States", including statistics. Text beneath map: "Shades of illiteracy in our Southland, being the inheritance of two hundred years of slavery and its civilization. Total population sixteen Southern States, ten years and over, 14,784,612. Total of those who can not read or write - white, 1,872,946; and colored, 3,242,435".
Notes: Caption title from cover page [1].

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