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Excerpt from The Jubilee Singers: And Their Campaign for Twenty Thousand Dollars With Photograph by Black
The following pages were prepared at intervals during the summer vacation, for the purpose of answering numerous questions about the Jubilee Singers. The statements respecting the illiteracy of the South, the campaign for Twenty Thousand Dollars, the Fisk University, and the American Mis sionary Association, are reliable. The personal his tories were gathered chiefly by a former teacher of Fisk University, who has rendered me great ser vice in preparing this volume for the press. In season for our coming campaign for the further endowment of that institution. That the reader may be inspired with a noble enthusiasm to repair the damages done by Slavery, and to restore fourfold to a race that has been wronged, is the most earnest wish of the.
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