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Friends' Association of Philadelphia for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen, Annual Reports
Report of the Executive Board of Friends' Association for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen, Read at the Meeting of the Association
Yearly reports printed for annual meeting of the association. Largely consist of narrative accounts of the freedmen's progress, drawn from letters sent by teachers who operated colored schools under the care of the association. Most years, a list of the society's officers, the treasurer's report, accounts of donations received in cash and goods, and an overview of distributions made were also included.
1864 - 1871
192 p. ; 22 cm.
reformatted digital
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Friends Freedmen's Association Records--http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/4024frfr
The Women's Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Freedmen was founded in 1862 to provide charitable assistance to recently freed slaves. Many Quakers were involved in this organization, but it was not until the following year that a similar group that was officially affiliated with the Society of Friends emerged. The Friends Association of Philadelphia and its Vicinity for the Relief of Colored Freedmen, was founded by Orthodox Quaker men in 1863. Soon after, in 1864, an equivalent group was established by Hicksite Quakers of both sexes: the Friends' Association for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen (amended to the more precise "Friends' Association of Philadelphia for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen"), which incorporated the Women's Association in 1865. It is unclear when this association closed, but it was in existence at least as late as 1872. Its Orthodox counterpart, renamed Friends' Freedmen's Association circa 1873, continued to operate in various capacities--most recently as a scholarship fund--until it was dissolved in 1982.
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“ The Association of Friends of Philadelphia for the Aid and
Elevation of the Freedmen,” in presenting the Seventh Annua
Report to the friends of the Freedmen, feel, that while they hav
pursued the even tenor of their way quietly, and it may be, wit
less publicity than formerly, and even with less manifestation
of interest among Friends generally, that the work is a
good one, and that the labor bestowed in its prosecution
during the past year has met with a corresponding reward.
What though discouragements may have arisen, do not
these pervade every position in life, and every undertaking
either for our own gratification, or for the well-being and benefit
of others? Though these may for a time depress, they should
never be allowed to prevent our persevering in the fulfilment o
every duty, but rather stimulate us to renewed exertion. We
are, however, gratified in the belief that as to the results that
have been realized in this especial field of labor, we have had no
cause for discouragement, and that the disinterested efforts of
the friends of the down-trodden have been especially blest ; being
comforted by the assurance that where these desirable results
have not been immediately apparent they will, “like bread cast
upon the waters, be found after many days.”
So much has been said with regard to the utility and neces,
sity of education, that we need not here r@iterate either these,
or the claims that the ignorant and poverty stricken have upon
their more fortunate fellow beings for assistance in the realiza-
tion of this inestimable boon.
Friends, as a people, have always professed to be the friends
of the oppressed and the down-trodden, whose poverty may have
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