PRESENT CONDITION OF THE FREEDMEN.

Kansas Freedmen's Relief Association—Testimony of Perry
Bradley—Incidents—Persecutions—Prof. Greener—Colored
Republicans—Further Testimony—Negro Woman Killed—Letter from the
South—Atrocities—Refugees in Kansas—Bull-dosing—Kansas
Overfull—Protection Needed—Michael Walsh—Silver Linings.

CHAPTER XIX.

PROSPECTS OF THE FREEDMEN.

Supplies Furnished—Relief Association at Work—Northern
Outrages—Prudence Crandall—Colored Schools—Freedmen's Aid
Schools—Industrial and Agricultural Institute.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

STEEL PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR THE SLAVEHOLDERS' THREATS. SLAVE IRONS. CLARK UNIVERSITY FOR FREEDMEN (CHRISMAN HALL). MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE.

CHAPTER I.

EARLY LIFE.

At the earnest solicitation of many dear friends I have consented to leave on record some of the incidents that have fallen under my personal observation during three-score and ten years.