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[EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION]. [YEATMAN, JAMES E. 1818 - 1901]., A REPORT On The CONDITION Of The FREEDMEN Of The MISSISSIPPI. To the Western Sanitary Commission. St. Louis, December 17th, 1863.
[St. Louis]: , [1864]. 8vo. 16 pp. Disbound, lacking wrappers, subsequently stitched with thin white string., margin of p. 1, above drop title). ¶ An early official report detailing the effects rendered by the "President's Proclamation of Freedom" on slaves in their "transition state from slavery." The author examines the situation in the lower Mississippi Valley, where he found that "no doubt the present system was the best that could be devised for the emergency at the time, but the experience of one season has enabled them who have examined it to see its defects. A man worth thirty, forty, fifty, or seventy-five dollars per month, should not be forced to give his labor for less. a plan should be adopted as will make them feel and see that they are treated and regarded as freemen." A historically important document providing a first-hand report of the preliminary, but no less actual & real, social change wrought by Lincoln's attempt to make free all men of the then not- so-United States. Author & actual pamphlet title derived from OCLC listing. Somewhat scarce- Not in Monaghan. Not in Sabin, though see 22718n [for an earlier report entitled 'Emancipation in Missouri'].
Offered for US$ 302.50 by: Tavistock Books, ABAA - Book number: 27015