Letter, 1902 April 2, Tuskegee, Alabama, to William Sloane Kennedy, Madison, Wisc.

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Letter, 1902 April 2, Tuskegee, Alabama, to William Sloane Kennedy, Madison, Wisc.

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Thanking Kennedy for his words of praise for Up From Slavery, and advising him that "'the grape-vine telegraph' was a term usually used during the slave period to designate the transmission of news from one slave to another surreptitiously."

1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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