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Letter from a Black organizer in South Carolina
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The Lowcountry Digital History Initiative transcription of an August 2, 1867 letter in the Robert C. Schenck Papers at Miami University Archives.
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Where this source is used
The same organizer reported establishing a League in ten districts.
- supports · letter dated August 2, 1867, paragraph beginning ‘Yours of the 24th ultimo’, sentence beginning ‘I have been traveling’
An unnamed Black organizer reported on 2 August 1867 that he had addressed large meetings in eighteen or twenty South Carolina districts.
- supports · letter dated August 2, 1867, paragraph beginning ‘Yours of the 24th ultimo’, sentence beginning ‘I have been traveling’
One organizer's report establishes his claimed activity, not statewide participation rates or the views of all freedpeople.
- qualifies · single letter and LDHI provenance note