People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — Ex-Slaves Want Pensions. [ARTICLE]

Ex-Slaves Want Pensions.

Topeka, Kan., Feb. 12. —An organization of ex-slaves has been effected here by colored men, for the purpose of making a demand on congress for pensions. They will ask that all over 70 years of age shall get S7OO in cash, and sls per month thereafter; all over 60, S6OO in cash and sl2 per month; all who were over 5 years old at the time of the emancipation, S3OO, and $5 a month; all over 1 year at the time of emancipation, SIOO cash, and $1 a month.