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Affidavit of Squire Acre: Albany, Georgia, 1868 Sept. 25

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Howard, O. H

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Squire Acre, a 53-year-old freedman and plantation worker, gives O.H. Howard, sub-assistant commissioner of Georgia's Freedmen's Bureau, his personal account of the events of September 19,1868, the date of an outbreak of violence between Republicans together with freedmen and the townspeople of Camilla who opposed them. After the initial shots were fired, Acre fled the scene, though he was pursued for six miles by three or four white men until he escaped into the woods.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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DeSoto Trail Regional Library System

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Camilla
  3. Freedmen
  4. Georgia
  5. History
  6. Personal Narratives
  7. Political Activity
  8. Political Violence
  9. Reconstruction
  10. Social Conditions
  11. To 1964
  12. United States
  13. United States. Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands
  14. Violence Against

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