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Names: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 (Creator)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1859 - 1894
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division; Shelf locator: Sc MG 108
Topics: Brown, John, 1800-1859; Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931; Bassett, Ebenezer D., 1833-1908; Fugitive slaves; Abolitionists; Antislavery movements; United States; Haiti
Genres: Correspondence
Notes: Content: 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.
Physical Description: Extent: 0.2 lin. ft. (one box)
Type of Resource: Text
Identifiers: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11524009; MSS Unit ID: 20577; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9d6e7850-1452-0133-5070-58d385a7bbd0

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