No negro suffrage and no repudiation.

Item Information

• Description
  One-page letter to George Francis Train from John M.S. Williams advocating suffrage for ex-slaves. Train's response is printed below, where he rejects this idea, writing that black men are inferior to educated white women, to Irish workers, and to educated youths. He also questions the ex-slaves' loyalty to the United States.

• Item ID
  bdsma20805
• Source Collection
  Broadsides and Ephemera Collection
• Spatial Coverage
  United States
  Massachusetts
  Middlesex County (Mass.)
  Boston (Mass.)
  New York (State)
  New York (N.Y.)
• Language
  eng
• Title
  No negro suffrage and no repudiation.
• Extent
  1 scan
• Date
  1865-06-15
• Folder
  MA2
• Type
  Text
  broadsides
  circular letters
• Subject
  African Americans--History
  Elections
  Race relations

• Copyright & Usage
  None