Book/Printed Material Letters from the South, relating to the condition of freedmen, addressed to Major General O. O. Howard, Commissioner, Bureau R., F., and A. L. African American Pamphlet Collection copy
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Image 1 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH, RELATING TO THE CONDITION OF FREEDMEN ADDRESSED TO MAJOR GENERAL O. O. HOWARD, Commissioner Bureau R., F., and A. L. BY J. W. ALVORD, Gen. Sup't Education, Bureau…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 2 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 3 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy INTRODUCTION. Howard University, Washington, D. C., March 17, 1870. The letters in this pamphlet, written by Mr. J. W. Alvord, General Superintendent of Education of the Freedmen's Bureau, furnish, in a small…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 4 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 5 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy LETTERS. Columbia, S. C., January 7, 1870. Dear General: I will not report in detail the Schools in Columbia, as you were an eye witness to their condition. The absence of advanced…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 6 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 6 (125 of whom are colored); all are taken equally by the hand with the graceful urbanity for which his honor is distinguished. All alike, on such occasions, crowd around his luxurious…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 7 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 7 pupils, in charge of the City Board, is conducted on the Southern plan; strict in discipline, but with less that cultivates the mind and heart. It is, however, an honor to…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 8 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 8 Some liberal fund is needed to keep choice, select scholars for two or three years until they can be thoroughly prepared as teachers and leaders of the people. The Normal Schools…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 9 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 9 As to intemperance there is certainly quite too much of it among the Freedmen. Three reasons have been given me for its prevalence: 1st. In the interior the “whiskey wagons” perambulating…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 10 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 10 bought a farm of seventy acres. What northern laborer could do better? I found on the Islands other clubs forming to do the same thing, and this in a season when…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 11 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 11 affairs. His position gives him opportunities of knowing facts which the visitor of a few weeks at the South cannot comprehend. Parker Pillsbury, esquire, of Massachusetts, who has recently been writing…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 12 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 12 The work may be termed what the lamented Lincoln denominated a “big job;” but it must be done, and that largely by the strong, benevolent arm of the north. It will…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 13 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 13 colored population generally here, are not as far advanced as in Charleston, yet this Institute is a credit to our work, and seems to command the respect of all classes. This…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 14 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 14 “presumed the permission had been reconsidered,” and said that “the teachers were a priesthood,” “took no pay,” “were mainly teaching religion,” &c., and reiterated her positive refusal to admit me. I…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 15 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 15 Augusta, Ga., January 17, 1870. Dear General: Arrived at this place, by night train, yesterday morning. The schools in Augusta are among the best I have seen, not so much in…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 16 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 16 and supplies for putting in their next crop. They came to us on returning, and begged very hard that a teacher might be sent to their settlement, promising to pay all…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 17 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 17 than real: 1. At this season of the year laborers come, in great numbers, from the plantations outside of Savannah to help in shipping cotton. They become what are called “long-shoremen;”…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 18 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 18 Give us time to rally them, so as to start fair in the race with the hitherto privileged class. A generation at least should be granted for an even chance, and…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 19 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 19 found. 2. Hehas one-third of all crops and found. 3. One-half of all, and shares equally in expenses. Rents of land are from $1 to $2 per acre. These rentals are…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 20 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 20 Our schools in Georgia have silenced open opposition, even in this time of fearful political excitement. I, as yet, hear of no increased violence to teachers. In Macon the schools of…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 21 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 21 should be a failure than that Bullock should triumph.” His more intimate advisers, I have seen, and know their character, and can assure you that no true Republican here stands by…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 22 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 22 We had a pleasant interview with Governor Bullock. us that our schools were a great blessing to the country. “They help,” he says, “all our institutions; our political prosperity must be…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 23 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 23 by subsequent mails. Below you have my notes of the general facts in Savannah, Macon, and this city: Comparative mortality among whites and blacks. SAVANNAH. Deaths from— White. Colored. Total. October,…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 24 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 24 one fear lest this population of “African descent” will fail of being abundant. The primary departments of our schools are always the the most crowded. Teachers and missionaries who daily visit…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 25 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 25 Atlanta University, January 22, 1870. Dear General: I look out upon these entrenchments, which flank the grounds of this university, in wonder at the change which four short years have made.…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 26 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 26 Before leaving next morning the enclosed written messages, each in the handwriting of its author, accumulated in my hands. I send them without correction, expressed as you see in great simplicity,…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 27 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 27 Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 21. Dear Sir: We are glad to hear you have done so much for us, and we will never forget you so long as the world stands. Your…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 28 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 28 Your officers in Georgia are excellent and efficient men, diligently at work in all the interests of the freedmen. On that most interesting of questions, the industry and economy of these…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 29 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 29 struggle to stem the tide, yet they are planning for emigration to the Southwest; many have already gone. About one hundred pupils are in the Chattanooga schools, with teachers worn by…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 30 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 30 This institute at present is in vacation, but numbers of pupils remain and the general routine continues. Mr. Bancroft, superintendent, and his corps of teachers appear without fault; buildings well cared…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 31 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 31 We spent an hour in the Legislature to-day where there seems to be but one party, of course having things their own way. Tomorrow we look in upon the Convention and…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 32 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 32 spelling in the lower departments, good classes in English branches, and recitations in mathematics and languages which would have done honor to students and professors of any institution. All the above…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 33 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 33 Louisvllle, Ky., January 28, 1870. Dear General: Desirous of seeing the whole line of interior cities and towns, I have taken this northern route. It is painful to observe in many…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 34 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 34 gentleman that the Freedmen are undoubtedly gaining in means of livelihood and character. Their taxable property in 1868 was $136,902, in 1869 $167,458, showing an increase of $30,556. This increase is…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 35 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 35 comes actually to be a voter, their best policy will be to grant him privileges. I regret since coming here to be informed of increasing outrages in Tennessee. The morals of…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 36 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 36 whiskey are the immediate incentives, though rebel blood and negrohate are the radical cause of such outrages. The people seemed excited on learning thai we were from Washington; a rumor in…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 37 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 37 during the existence of the dominant party, there will be internal feud; rivalries for office, each seeking the major vote, thus ensuring to colored possessors of the franchise enlarged privileges and…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 38 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 38 know that every male student here carries a revolver—in line on the first alarm, and they did not choose to leave the beaten path. Berea has now about 200 pupils, one-third…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 39 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 39 About 250 people are gathered in families around the institution kindred in spirit, and making in all quite a congregation. The trustees, professors, and pupils are hearty in their thanks for…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
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Image 40 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 40 was on every face—evidently mischief was brewing. The driver of our carraige out on Saturday, came to us much agitated, saying, “If that had been true I know you'd think I…- Contributor: Alvord, J. W. (John Watson) - United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870
About this Item
Title
- Letters from the South, relating to the condition of freedmen, addressed to Major General O. O. Howard, Commissioner, Bureau R., F., and A. L.
Names
- Alvord, J. W. (John Watson), 1807-1880
- United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
- African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Washington, D.C., Howard University Press, 1870.
Headings
- - Freed persons
- - African Americans--Education
Notes
- - LC copy 1 replaced by preservation microfilm.
- - Microfilm. Washington, D. C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service.
Medium
- 42 p. 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E185.2 .A47
- Microfilm 8120 E
- E185 .A254 container A, no. 7 Another copy. Formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16977. Source unknown.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 12002985
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- online text
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