Negro Peonage

WS 1865-07-28 Negro Peonage p 2, col D.JPG

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

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End Page

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