Civil rights : speech of Hon. Richard H. Cain, of South Carolina, in the House of Representatives, Saturday, Jan. 10th, 1874.

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Civil rights : speech of Hon. Richard H. Cain, of South Carolina, in the House of Representatives, Saturday, Jan. 10th, 1874.

1874

4 p. ; 24 cm. (8vo)

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Cain, Richard Harvey, 1825-1887

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Reverend Richard Harvey Cain (April 12, 1825 – January 18, 1887) was a minister, abolitionist, and United States Representative from South Carolina from 1873–1875 and 1877-1879. After the Civil War, he was appointed by Bishop Daniel Payne as a missionary of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina. He also was one of the founders of Lincolnville, South Carolina. Cain was born to a black father and a Cherokee mother in Greenbrier County, Virginia, which is now in West Virginia....