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Title: "Are Negroes Men?" in The Freedman (October 1865)
Description: Boston, American Tract Society, 1865. 1st Edition. 0 pp. No Binding. Faur 4-page newspaper with closed tears to the edges and spine. 4 paragraphs (under the title "Intelligence"on p. 4) of interest: "Are Negroes Men" tells of a former slave of Jeff Davis' visiting Cincinnati for tshe purchase of dry goods who tells of his being a carpenter and machinist on Davis' and his brother's plantation. He now says the plantation is run by "his former fellow bondmen" who are "working industriously, and more effectively than under former rule". Also, "Intelligence" about a "large number of gentlemen from the Southern States, all anxious to obtain an audience of the President" (in Washington). The officers (including.RM.T. Hunter) are there to ask the president for pardon. They question him about negro suffrage, which the president defends: he asks them if it is manly to ask the negroes to fight, and then deny him the right to vote". Another notice is about Gen. Howard's sending out word to his officers that all should demand that former slave owners pay their negro workers fairly. And, finally, there is a paragraph devoted to describing the two monuments that honor the men who "fell there in the two great and disastrous battles". Quite rare item. Fair.

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