Title
Negro Peonage
Subject
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Description
The Walla Walla Statesman editor suggests in his comments on this report that slavery was more beneficial to black men and women in the American south than freedom. The "peonage" referred to in the article's title describes the agricultural servitude of tenant farming - or worse. This postwar claim speaks to the Statesman editor's conviction that the war properly concerned saving the union and did not or should not be concerned with freeing black slaves or "making" them equal.
Abstract
The Walla Walla Statesman reports the postwar economic status of freed black slaves.
Source
Walla Walla Statesman
Publisher
Walla Walla W.T.: R.R. and S.G. Rees
Date Issued
1865-07-28
Medium
Web
Type
article
Bibliographic Citation
Vol. IV, No. 33, p. 1, col. D
Provenance
Washington Secretary of State: Historic Newspapers
URL
http://sos.wa.gov/history/newspapers.aspx
Start Page
1
End Page
1