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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Black Surgeon Alexander Augusta writes about the discrimination his wife endured on the train from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A.T. Augusta (surgeon, 7th USCT) to Maj. Gen. Lewis Wallace (cmdg Middle Department &amp; 8th Army Corps) alleging that the Baltimore &amp; Ohio R.R. charges Black passengers the same fare yet forces them into the front car of the train, which is filled with tobacco smoke and all sorts of people. &quot;It makes no difference how respectable a colored lady may be; how disagreable smoking may be to her; or how ill she might be, the employees about the depot will not permit her to enter another car, and should she by chance get into another and is found there, she is rudely thrust out.&quot; Gives exmample of his wife and another Black woman expelled from their car and forced into the smoking car. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1/20/1865]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></dcterms:coverage>
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