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Affidavit of Jackson O'Brien: Dougherty County, Georgia, 1868 Sept. 23

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Howard, O. H

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This affidavit of Jackson O'Brien, twenty-two-year-old cottonfield worker, taken in Dougherty County, Georgia on September 23, 1868 by Freedman's Bureau subassistant commissioner O.H. Howard details O'Brien's experience of seeing the bodies of five freedmen in the woods outside of Camilla following the violence that occurred in the town when freedmen along with Republicans came to hold a political rally at the Mitchell County Courthouse on September 19, 1868 and met with the opposition of the townspeople.Digital image and transcription created by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001 of a photocopy held by DeSoto Trail Regional Library of an original record held by the National Archives.
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Camilla
  3. Freedmen
  4. Georgia
  5. Government
  6. History
  7. Mitchell County (Ga.)
  8. O'brien, Jackson
  9. Personal Narratives
  10. Political Activity
  11. Political Violence
  12. Politics And Government
  13. Race Relations
  14. Reconstruction
  15. Social Conditions
  16. To 1964
  17. United States
  18. United States. Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands
  19. Violence Against

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