Autograph letter signed : Washington D.C., to Hon. J.D. Husbands, 1881 Jan. 17.

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Autograph letter signed : Washington D.C., to Hon. J.D. Husbands, 1881 Jan. 17.

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Concerning a movement to secure a place for Douglass in the cabinet of President Garfield and giving his views on discrimination against African-American men in government office.

1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Husbands, J. D.,

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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...