Frederick C. Douglass Papers, 1873-[1887-1901]-1958

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Frederick C. Douglass Papers, 1873-[1887-1901]-1958

1873-1958

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0323

Papers (1873-[1887-1901]-1958) of a Black lawyer, minister and teacher, in New Bern, N.C., who handled pension applications for many African Americans who served in the Union Army and Navy during the Civil War or their widows, consisting of pension affidavit ledgers, pension certificate ledgers, correspondence, pamphlets, daybooks, photographs, poetry, essays, application forms, tax receipts, etc.

1.115 Cubic feet, 25 items, 11 volumes , including Civil War pension affidavit ledgers, pension certificate ledgers, correspondence, pamphlets, daybooks, and miscellany.

eng, Latn

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11617383

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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Douglass, Frederick C., active 1889-1897

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Frederick C. Douglass was a black lawyer, minister, and teacher of New Bern, N.C. who handled the pension applications of many blacks who served in the United States Army and United States Navy during the Civil War. An influential member of his community, Douglass was born enslaved in the 1850s. After the Civil War, he married a woman named Charlotte Bryant. They had a family including three children, but his wife died from an illness, and he remarried twice more throughout his life. In the ear...