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Various Items (August 21st, 1868)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: The African Americans of Frederick County will hold an emancipation celebration at Worman's woods on Sep. 2nd.
Full DetailsThe colored camp-meeting… (August 21st, 1868)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: An African American camp meeting will be held in Crampton's Woods.
Full DetailsAnother Appointment (September 10th, 1868)
>From The American Sentinel; Westminster, MD
Summary: Jacob Bowman has resigned the position of lamplighter for the West End (Westminster) and another colored man Aaron Woodyard has been appointed in his stead. Bowman says the Democrats "could not buy him to be a Democrat."
Full DetailsEducational Meeting of the Colored People (October 8th, 1868)
>From The American Sentinel; Westminster, MD
Summary: Colored people of Carroll County will hold an educational meeting in Westminster at which Gen. Howard of the Freedmen's Bureau will deliver an address. Object of meeting is to inaugurate a system of schools for colored children.
Full DetailsColored Odd Fellows Procession (October 14th, 1868)
>From The Herald and Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: Several Hagerstown members and Moxley's brass band attended the Order of Colored Odd Fellows' procession in Harrisburg.
Full DetailsPostponement (October 15th, 1868)
>From The American Sentinel; Westminster, MD
Summary: Notice: the educational meeting of the colored people at Westminster has been postponed until further notice.
Full DetailsAttractive Reading for Virtuous People (October 21st, 1868)
>From The Herald and Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: The Mail is criticized for publishing stories about rape and murder attributed to Negroes, "quite as prurient as those in the Police Gazette" and often false, as in the Milhean case.
Full DetailsOn the Rampage (November 25th, 1868)
>From The Herald and Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: The Herald attacks the Mail for opposing Negro suffrage, states its own belief that political equality is proper but does not imply social equality.
Full DetailsChurch Burned (March 19th, 1869)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: A Methodist Episcopal (colored) church was burned down in the Petersville District, Frederick Co.; arson suspected.
Full DetailsDeath of an Old Colored Citizen (April 9th, 1869)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Death of Abbe Chase, "Old Aunt Ab," well-respected former slave of John Herring of Middletown
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