Lot
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New England Freedman's Aid Society. Printed corner card on cover franked with 1866 2¢ Blackjack (trivial corner perf crease) tied by cork cancel with red double circle Boston postmark, Very Fine and scarce. Estimate $200 - 300.
The primary function of the New England Freedmen's Aid Society was to provide an assortment of relief (temporary) services to accommodate slaves who were emancipated by the act of 1862. The slaves' itinerary, for the most part, led them to Massachusetts and into the hands of several sympathetic and charitable whites. The Association's services included temporary housing, the collection and distribution of clothing, food, sundry goods and a job training program.
Harriet Tubman was hired in 1865 by the Society to teach marketable skills to newly freed slave-women in the South.
Realized: $105