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Affidavit of Plenty Arnold: Dougherty County, Georgia, 1868 Sept. 25

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Howard, O. H

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Plenty Arnold, a 31-year-old freedman and plantation worker, gives O.H. Howard, sub-assistant comissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau in Georgia, his personal account of the events of September 19th 1868. On that day in Camilla, Georgia, violence broke out between Republicans together with freedman and the townspeople who opposed them. Arnold particularly details his fate, and that of several other freedmen, as they fled the town and were pursued by whites following the initial episode at the courthouse.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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Arnold, Plenty
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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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