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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) HUNT, B[ENJAMIN] .P[ETER]. Report of the Committee Appointed for the Purpose of Securing to Colored People in Philadelphia the Right to the Use of the Street Cars. Eight 8vo pages, bound into modern cloth-backed stiff card stock with a typed label on the upper cover; lacks the printed wrappers. [Harrisburg, 1866]
first and only printing. In1866, colored veterans of the Civil War, returning home found, that though they had fought (and many had died) for their country, they were not permitted to ride the street cars of Philadelphia; this during one of the coldest winters on record. There were a few violent incidents causing the officials of the "City of Brotherly Love" a great deal of embarrassment. A committee of Colored Men was set up to raise funds to bring the case to the capital at Harrisburg. This pamphlet is a report of the fund-raising efforts and the progress of the case. It is signed in print by a virtual "who's who" of Pennsylvania's black citizens, and white abolitionists, including William Still, author of "The Underground Railroad."
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