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The American Freedmen's Aid Commission [manuscript]

by: American Freedmen's Aid Commission; Shipherd, Jacob R. (Jacob Rudd), 1836-1905, author

Publication date: 1865

Topics: United States, United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln), United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists, Social reformers, Freedmen, Equality before the law, African Americans, African Americans, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Publisher: Washington, D. C.

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Holograph, signed

Title devised by cataloger

Manuscript is typeset

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."