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“”Eloquently and Feelingly’: Edmonia Highgate and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper at the 1864 Syracuse Convention”

Symposium Abstract

The roster of participants at the October 1864 National Convention of Colored Men at Syracuse, New York, reads like a Who’s Who among Black male activists: Frederick Douglass, Henry Highland Garnet, John S. Rock, George Boyer Vashon, Christian Recorder editor Elisha Weaver . . . the list goes on.

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