Request for contributions to "The Fountain Land and Educational Fund"

Item Information

• Description
  P. 1 contains instructions for sending contributions to S. E. Peabody, Boston, for "The Fountain Land and Educational Fund", and includes testimonials on the character of William H. Thomas. Pages 2-4 include "Land and education: A practical method of industrial training for the freedmen" which outlines the plan to secure 12,000 acres in Camden County, North Carolina,...to be divided "into three hundred small farms, and three hundred tenants from among trustworthy industrious Negro families will be judiciously selected". The tenants must raise enough crops for their subsistence and to pay rent, eventually leading to land-ownership.

• Item ID
  bdsma30856
• Source Collection
  Broadsides and Ephemera Collection
• Spatial Coverage
  United States
  Massachusetts
  North Carolina
  Middlesex County (Mass.)
  Camden County (N.C.)
  Boston (Mass.)
• Language
  eng
• Title
  Request for contributions to "The Fountain Land and Educational Fund"
• Extent
  4 scans
• Date
  1891
• Folder
  MA3
• Type
  Text
  broadsides
  circular letters
• Subject
  African Americans--History
  Race relations
  Education
  Slavery
  Commerce

• Copyright & Usage
  None