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Former slaves attend reunion convention. Washington D.C., 1916

President Wilson, Vice President Marshall, Candidates Hughes and Fairbanks, together with a number of other notables, were invited to deliver addresses before the fifty-fourth convention of former slaves, which was held in the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, N street near Ninth street northwest, from October 22 to November 6.

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