William L. Horner Collection: Frederick C. Douglass Papers, 1889-1890, 1893-1894

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William L. Horner Collection: Frederick C. Douglass Papers, 1889-1890, 1893-1894

1889-1894

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0265-001

Collection (1889-1890, 1893-1894) including Civil War Negro soldiers pension and compensation applications compiled by Frederick C. Douglass, a black lawyer, minister, and teacher in New Bern, NC who served as a government pension agent, 1889-1897.

0.87 Cubic feet, 2 volumes , pension ledgers

eng, Latn

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11617385

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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Horner, William L.

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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...