THE
FREEDMEN'S BOOK.
By L. MARIA CHILD.
Waiting for God,—your hour, at last, has come,
And Freedom's song
Breaks the long silence of your night of wrong.
John G. Whittier.
TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
1865.
L. MARIA CHILD,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,
Cambridge.
THE LOYAL AND BRAVE
CAPTAIN ROBERT SMALL,
Hero of the Steamboat Planter,
THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY
L. MARIA CHILD.
TO THE FREEDMEN.
I have prepared this book expressly for you, withthe hope that those of you who can read will readit aloud to others, and that all of you will derive freshstrength and courage from this true record of what coloredmen have accomplished, under great disadvantages.
I have written all the biographies over again, in orderto give you as much information as possible in the fewestwords. I take nothing for my services; and the book issold to you at the cost of paper, printing, and binding.Whatever money you pay for any of the volumes will beimmediately invested in other volumes to be sent to freedmenin various parts of the country, on the same terms;and whatever money remains in my hands, when the bookceases to sell, will be given to the Freedmen's Aid Association,to be expended in schools for you and your children.
Your old friend,
L. MARIA CHILD.