---
title: 'Friendly Counsels for Freedmen'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Jared Bell Waterbury'
date: 2026-07-16
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: 'Date unknown'
topics:
- 'Economics, Employment, and Work'
- 'Personal Piety'
- 'Education'
scriptures:
- 'Exodus 20'
- 'Matthew 5'
- 'Romans 12'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/date-unknown/waterbury-friendly-counsels-for-freedmen
---

# Friendly Counsels for Freedmen

Post-emancipation pastoral advice urging freedmen to work diligently, save, be clean, sober, honest and chaste, observe the Sabbath, pursue learning and true religion.

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