National Anti-Slavery Standard, [newspaper] 1864 Apr. 30.

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National Anti-Slavery Standard, [newspaper] 1864 Apr. 30.

National Anti-Slavery Standard, [newspaper] 1864 Apr. 30.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60448385

Weekly paper published in New York City; issue dated 30 Apr. 1864 features news items about African American soldiers in South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisana, and elsewhere during the Civil War, and freedmen in Port Royal, S.C. This edition reprints letter, 20 March 1864, from unidentified correspondent in Beaufort, S.C., titled "Freedmen of Port Royal Faring Hardly," written to the editors of The Independent, criticizing the government's reversal of its land policy re freed African American slaves and contesting the views of Edward S. Philbrick set forth in a letter to the New York Evening Post, 9 Mar. 1864. Issue also reprints article, "Massachusetts Colored Troops," originally published in the New York Tribune, 13 April 1864, praising the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Volunteers for their actions at Fort Wagner and during the siege of Charleston, S.C. Other articles include, "Massacre at Fort Pillow - Details of the Horrid Affair" re Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and the battle in Lauderdale County, Tennessee; and "Reorganization of Louisiana - Letter of Thomas J. Durant," 31 Mar. 1864, written from New Orleans re the beginning of Reconstruction in Louisiana with charts listing population totals by county of "free whites, free colored, and slaves" taken from the 1860 U.S. Federal Census.

4 p. ; 60 x 48 cm.

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