Notes On the Progress of the Colored People of Maryland Since the War a Supplem
Notes On the Progress of the Colored People of Maryland Since the War a Supplem
Jeffrey Richardson Brackett
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Whether rightly or not, there has been much dissatisfaction, and the ship-yard, the first and greatest enterprise of the colored people here, has probably therefore done more harm than good. Again, the failure of the Freedmen s Bank was a serious blow to the rap idly progressing colored people. For instance, one of the colored building associations lost nearly $1, 000 by it; and one individual lost $1, 200, the savings from his barber-shop and, if report be true, lost his health besides by his ...misfor tune. Later still, the management of a piece of property bought by colored subscribers, for some $20, 000, for a meeting place for the colored societies, military companies, It is no wonder, then, that people hesitate to promise support to many applicants, as, for instance, to the man who tried, a year or two ago, to get up a steamboat and commer cial company of colored men, for boats on the Bay. On the other hand, because the colored people have learned a few business lessons by a harsh experience, there is no ground for discouragement.
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