1325
Cleveland Morning Leader, 3 February 1864
(4 inches)
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p.4, col.2
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1325 - L. Feb. 3:4/2 - Mrs. Gage's lecture at Brainard's hall was enjoyerl
by a large audience; particularly her vivid description of contraband life,
with which she is familiar through more than a year's experience in South .
Carolina. She showed how the long-looked-for redemption of the Negroes
in the South is to be achieved. - (4)
Negroes
Index terms:
Brainard's hall (Cont'd); Gage, Mrs. Francis D. (1ecturer); South; South Carolina
1968
Cleveland Morning Leader, 14 June 1864
(18 inches)
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p.2, col.3
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1968 - I, June 14:2/3 - In a letter to the editor, Mrs. Frances D. Gage,
says: That Cairo, where she landed, is the stopping place for the refugees,
white and black, that flee from the terrible oppressions of the Confed-
erates. She found groups of these ill-fated people, lying, sitting, and
standing in an almost unimaginable condition of wretchedness and poverty,
squalid, filthy, pale, haggard with hurger, fever and toil. She says:
"If there is any one who has enlisted in the work of emancipation, that
has felt like turning back, let me beseech them to persevere, if not for
the sake of the Negro, for the sake of the white men and women whose hu-
manity is crushed, almost into brutishness, by this unknown monster,
slavery." (18)
Slavery
Index terms:
Cairo, Ill.; Confederacy; Gage, Mrs. Francis D. (1ecturer)
2278
Cleveland Morning Leader, 2 July 1864
(16 inches)
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p.2, col.3
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2278 - L July 2:2/3 - In a letter to the editor, a Mrs. Gage writes:
"I have been in Natchez one week and have made myself busy locking into
conditions of the Refugees and Freedman, (which is my mission) and sad,
sickening, and pitiful sights meet me at every turn."
Mrs. Gage describes the refugees as being in poor physical condition.
Scarcely a woman has shoes, many walking in intense heat carrying babies.
Husbands and brothers are hanged by Rebels; some are shot in defense
of their homes.
Natchez hospitals are in good condition. (16)
Wars /
Civil War
Index terms:
Gage, Mrs. Francis D. (1ecturer); Natchez, Miss.