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Affidavit of Goliath Kendrick: Albany, Georgia, 1868 Sept. 23

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Howard, O. H

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Goliath Kendrick, a twenty-four-year-old freedman and a worker on the Orr plantation in Mitchell County, tells of his survival of the Camilla riot in his affidavit given to Freedmen's Bureau subassistant commissioner O.H. Howard in Albany, Georgia on Sept. 23, 1868. The Camilla Riot took place when Republicans together with freedmen came to Camilla, Georgia on September 19, 1868 and were met there with violent opposition from the townspeople. Kendrick, along with four or five others from the Orr plantation, joined the Republicans and freedmen in the procession to Camilla that day. He states that neither he nor the others were anticipating any violence, though he clearly saw James Johns fire the shots when the incident began. He and his friends fled quickly with the other freedmen, but he seperated from them and went home through the woods to the Orr plantation. His friends did not survive.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. Goliath, Kendrick
  6. Government
  7. History
  8. Mitchell County (Ga.)
  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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