The Pennsylvania Freedmen's Bulletin and American Freedman, Vol. 2 PDF Download

Author: Penna. Freedmen's Relief Association
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265987575
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Freedmen's Bulletin and American Freedman, Vol. 2: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Promotion of Freedom, Industry, Education, and Christian Morality in the South; July, August, September and October, 1867 Robert P. Martin, Of Person County, North Carolina, presented himself at the Rooms Of the Pennsylvania Branch about two months ago, bringing as credentials a letter from the Rev. Thomas S. Malcolm, Of Philadelphia, and one from a late slaveholder, Mr. William Thaxton, Of his own neighborhood; also the minutes of an association of African Baptist churches, which organized in December last, in Person County. With this association Mr. Martin is connected, having under his charge three congregations. He came North for the purpose of collecting $500, which, with the same sum to be raised by his own people, will enable them to build churches and school-houses, wherein to worship and gather their children for education. The land on which these buildings are to be erected has been furnished by Mr. Thaxton. Mr. Martin also desired to Obtain the promise of support for two teachers among his people - one to be located at Roxboro', and another at Hillsboro'. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.