Boston (MA) Liberator, “Emancipation Day in Poughkeepsie,” August 6, 1858

    Source citation
    “Emancipation Day in Poughkeepsie,” Boston (MA) Liberator, August 6, 1858, p. 127: 6.
    Newspaper: Publication
    Boston Liberator
    Newspaper: Headline
    Emancipation Day in Poughkeepsie
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    127
    Newspaper: Column
    6
    Type
    Periodical
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    EMANCIPATION DAY IN POUGHKEEPSIE. A large number of colored people assembled in Poughkeepsie on Monday, to celebrate the anniversary of British West Indian Emancipation. The leading feature of the day was an address by Fred. Douglass, which covered the entire ground presented in the question as to the effects of Emancipation, and reviewed the present government and its policy as affecting the growth of slavery. He was particularly severe on his namesake, the Senator from Illinois.

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