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The papers of Frederick Douglass, 1841-1964

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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Published
Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1974.
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34 microfilm reels : positive ; 35 mm

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Abolitionist, orator, journalist, diplomat and public official. Correspondence, diary (1886-87), speeches, articles, MS. of Douglass' autobiography, financial and legal papers, newspaper clippings, and other material, chiefly 1862-95, relating to Douglass' life and work and his interest in social, educational, and economic reform, and documenting his career as lecturer and writer, activities as publisher of the North Star (1847-51), tours abroad (1845-47, 1886-87), and his appointments as U.S. Marshall (1877) and recorder of deeds (1881) for the District of Columbia, as U.S. Minister to Haiti and charǵe d'affaires in Santo Domingo (1889) and as commissioner (1892-93) in charge of exhibits from Haiti at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Topics include emancipation and the problems of emancipated blacks, women's rights, political affairs, a proposed naval station at Môle Saint Nicolas, Haiti, family matters, and his residence "Cedar Hill," in Anacostia, D.C. Includes correspondence and other papers (1859-1903) of Douglass' second wife, Helen (Pitts) Douglass; biographical sketch of his first wife, Anna (Murray) Douglass, by their daughter, Rosetta (Douglass) Sprague; speeches and articles of his contemporaries; and correspondence with members of the Webb and Richardson families, who collected the money to buy Douglass' freedom. Other correspondents include Susan B. Anthony, Ottilia Assing, Ebenezer D. Bassett, James G. Balaine, Henry William Blair, Blance K. Bruce, Mary and Russell Lant Carpenter, William E. Chandler, James S. Clarkson, Grover Cleveland, Julia Griffiths Crofts, William E. Curtis, George T. Downing, Rosine Ame Draz, Paul Laurence Dunbar, T. Thomas Fortune, Henry Highland Garnet, William Lloyd Garrison, Martha W. Greene, John Marshall Harlan, Benjamin Harrison, George F. Hoar, J. Sella Martin, Parker Pillsbury, Jeremiah E. Rankin, Robert Smalls, Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Henry O. Tanner, Theodore Tilton, John Van Voorhis, Henry O. Wagoner, and Ida B. Wells.
For index and reel guide see Frederick Douglass : a register and index of his papers in the Library of Congress.
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