Record Data
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
Transcription
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.
