A Journey in Brazil: Henry Washington Hilliard and the Brazilian Anti-slavery SocietyDurham, Hilliard's biographer, provides background and context to the remarkable anti-slavery speech that Hilliard, a former slave owner and Confederate soldier, delivered at a banquet in Rio de Janerio in the fall of 1880. |
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An Improbable Journey | 18 |
Exchange of Letters | 85 |
Banquet in Honor of Henry W Hilliard | 105 |
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