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Title: Elevator - August 25, 1865
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Elevator (1865 - 18??)
The writer gives a brief review of a recent meeting held to raise funds for newly freed slaves and other needy families.
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Title: Elevator - May 12, 1865
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Elevator (1865 - 18??)
The writer comments on a copy of the Pennsylvania Freedmen's Journal he recently received. He also alerts his readers to a fundraiser being organized to help newly freed slaves.
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Title: Elevator - October 20, 1865
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Elevator (1865 - 18??)
The writer tells his readers about job opportunities for newly freed slaves in California. He suggests that the railroad could offer jobs for many freed men.
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Title: Pacific Appeal - February 14, 1863
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
The writer tells his readers that now that the slaves are free they will have to fend for themselves. Those former slaves who are not employed by the military must make their own way and find employment through the many hardships that await them.
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Title: Pacific Appeal - May 16, 1863
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
The writer notes that there are African Americans who were born free or freed early in life and who traveled north to live in free states. These people have never known slavery, yet all African Americans are effected by prejudice regardless of their life experience.
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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - November 30, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer discusses options for accepting newly freed slaves into the social structure. He uses the West Indies after emancipation as an example. He notes that in many ways poor white people in the slave states are "lower than the slaves; they are slaves without masters." He wonders here if the government, in an effort to raise the status of these poor white citizens, will indirectly raise the status of the slaves once they are free.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page