Freedmen's Book (1865 Ticknor and Fields edition) (Q2640)
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1865 edition published in Boston by Ticknor and Fields
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| English | Freedmen's Book (1865 Ticknor and Fields edition) |
1865 edition published in Boston by Ticknor and Fields |
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THE | FREEDMEN'S BOOK. | By L. MARIA CHILD. | O dark, sad millions,--patiently and dumb | Waiting for God,--your hour, at last, has come,| And Freedom's song | Breaks the long silence of your night of wrong. | JOHN G. WHITTIER | [publisher's device] | BOSTON: | TICKNOR AND FIELDS. | 1865.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by | L. MARIA CHILD, | in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
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UNIVERSITY PRESS : WELCH, BIGELOW, & CO., | CAMBRIDGE.
title page verso
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TO | THE LOYAL AND BRAVE | CAPTAIN ROBERT SMALL, | Hero of the Steamboat Planter, | THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY | L. MARIA CHILD
page [i]
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[1] TO THE FREEDMEN. | I HAVE prepared this book expressly for you, with | the hope that those of you who can read will read | it aloud to others, and that all of you will derive fresh | strength and courage from this true record of what colored | men have accomplished, under great disadvantages. |
p. [iii]
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[2] I have written all the biographies over again, in order | to give you as much information as possible in the fewest | words. I take nothing for my services; and the book is | sold to you at the cost of paper, printing, and binding. |
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[3] Whatever money you pay for any of the volumes will be | immediately invested in other volumes to be sent to freedmen | in various parts of the country, on the same terms; | and whatever money remains in my hands, when the book | ceases to sell, will be given to the Freedmen's Aid Association, | to be expended in schools for you and your children. | Your old friend, | L. MARIA CHILD.
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