The Savannah delegation of twenty was diverse in prior bondage status and education

Evidence

Among the delegation of twenty black men, primarily from Georgia and South Carolina, was great diversity. Nine had remained in bondage until the Union Army entered their states, three had bought their freedom outright, three had been emancipated by will following their enslavers’ deaths, and five were born free. They ranged in age from twenty-six to seventy-two, with varying degrees of experience and service in the church, some commanding local congregations as large as eighteen hundred people and managing church property worth as much as 20,000. Garrison Frazier, though he was no longer in charge of any congregation as his health was failing, was chosen by his peers to lead the group and "express their common sentiments." As the scholar Charles Elmore describes him, Frazier, an eloquent and imposing man, was "well over 6 feet tall." Only eight years before, Frazier had secured freedom for himself and his wife with a payment of 1,000 in gold and silver. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 8

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The 1865 Savannah delegation spanned enslaved, self-purchased, and free-born black men
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The 1865 Savannah delegation spanned enslaved, self-purchased, and free-born black men

Broader Connections

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