Frederick Douglass collection 1859-1894

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Frederick Douglass collection 1859-1894

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African-American abolitionist, orator, author, diplomat and public official, born in slavery circa 1817. Ten autograph letters signed by Frederick Douglass; typescript of "John Brown," an address delivered at Harpers Ferry and edited in Douglass's own hand; one pamphlet of an Anti-Fugitive Slave Law Meeting at which Douglass presided in 1851; obituaries of Douglass; miscellaneous printed matter; photocopies and research materials relating to Douglass. Substantive letters include an April 24 [1869?] A.L.S. to Downing [George Thomas?] on the appointment of Ebenezer Bassett as United States resident minister to Haiti, a post for which Douglass had been considered and which he would accept in 1889; and an 1894 letter to Rev. R.A. Armstrong written on behalf of Ida B. Wells, then traveling in Europe to speak against racial discrimination and lynchings of African-Americans in southern states.

0.2 lin. ft. (one box)

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section

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