Celebrating Rights and 
Responsibilities
Baltimore & the Fifteenth Amendment, May 19, 1870
An Interactive Historical Investigation by David Troy © 1996

Family: along with the ideas of freedom, marriage, and religion came family. For it was in the traditional structures of family, marriage, and religion that blacks intended to educate themselves and become complete participants in government.

Inscription: "Freedom unites the family circle."


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