American Freedmen's and Union Commission
It was organized by representatives of various freedmen's associations.[1]
The American Union Commission and the American Freedmen's Aid Commission[2] in 1865 with Bishop Simpson as the combined group's president.[3]
Lyman Abbott was its Executive Secretary.[4]
It published The Pennsylvania freedmen's bulletin[5] and then The American Freedman.[6]
Henry Ward Beecher addressed its meeting in Baltimore.[7]
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References edit
- ^ https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/experience/education/docs5.html
- ^ "American Freedman's Union Commission. American Freedman's Union Commission minute book, 1866-1869. - View Resource - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org.
- ^ "The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], The American Freedmen's Aid Commission and the American Union Commission". www.perseus.tufts.edu.
- ^ "American Freedmen's and Union Commission) - Google Search". www.google.com.
- ^ "Catalog Search Results | HathiTrust Digital Library". catalog.hathitrust.org.
- ^ https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006784898
- ^ https://www.ynytimes.com/1866/10/14/archives/american-freedmens-union-commission-the-session-in-baltimorepublic.html
- ^ Knoles, Lucia Z. (February 15, 2006). "Northern Visions of Race, Region and Reform: The Press and the Letters of Freedmen and Freedmen's Teachers in the Civil War Era, An American Antiquarian Society Online Resource". www.americanantiquarian.org.
- ^ "Circular of the American Union Commission · Online Exhibitions". www.virginiamemory.com.