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| Anne Davis Writes President Lincoln | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Belair [Md.] Aug 25th 1864 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Mr president; It is my Desire to be free. to go to see my people on the eastern shore my mistress wont let me you will please let me know if we are free. and what i can do. I write to you for advice please send me word this week. or as soon as possible and oblidge. |
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| Annie Davis | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maryland's exclusion from the Emancipation Proclamation left Annie Davis still enslaved. Insistent on her right to freedom, she demanded that President Abraham Lincoln himself clarify her status. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| A Bureau of Colored Troops Adjutant General's Office notation on the outside of the letter reads merely "file" and no response to Annie Davis appears among the copies of letters sent by the bureau or by other offices in the War Department. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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