(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) [LINCOLN ABRAHAM] DAY WILLIAM HOWARD

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THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN NATIONAL CELEBRATION (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) [LINCOLN, ABRAHAM] DAY, WILLIAM HOWARD. Celebration of the Colored People's Educational Monument Association in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, on the Fourth of July, 1865, in the Presidential Grounds, Washington, D.C. 33, [I], pages. 8vo, original printed blue wrappers, later stitching; a couple of small institutional stamps. Washington, D.C.: McGill & Witherow, 1865

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first edition, rare. This pamphlet marks the first celebration of a national character organized and carried out by African-Americans. The keynote speech was given by William Howard Day (1825-1900). Day was an editor, orator, teacher and later minister. The preface includes congratulatory letters from Frederick Douglass, William Kelley, Gerritt Smith, Salmon Chase and Charles Sumner. Day's speech touched on the military service of the African-American in the Civil War as well as the Revolution and War of 1812, in which his own father fought. A very scarce pamphlet.