First Journal for the Education of Freed Slaves, Vol. I, No. I, Boston, MA, January, 1865.
Inaugural issue of The Freedmen’s Journal has a front page description of the New England Freedmen’s Aid Society, and the great amount of work it has accomplished attempting to house, feed, clothe, reorient, and educate the ever-growing number of freed slaves in the South.
This first issue also highlights extracts of letters from the group’s member-teachers which now total 750, as well as stating they already have 2 million as the number of ex-slaves in their care.