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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.
U.S. Grant and
the Colored People.
Original single sheet, folded to form 8 pages, however never
stitched into a pamphlet as it was intended. Paper lightly toned.
Washington: The New National Era, circa 1872
[1,500/2,500]
RARE OFF
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PRINT FROM FREDERICK DOUGLASS
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THE NEW NATIONAL
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This piece was originally an editorial in what was to be Douglass’s last newspaper pub-
lishing experience. This single sheet would have been stitched and released as a pamphlet.
Douglass was full of praise, urging Colored People to exercise their right to vote by casting that
vote for Grant. For which Douglass expected some sort of quid pro quo. However, none was
forthcoming. In fact 1872 was very bad year for Douglass. Someone burned his Rochester home
to the ground, and The Freedman’s Savings Bank of which he was an official was teetering on
the brink of bankruptcy.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.
Oration by
Frederick Douglass on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Freedmen’s
Monument, in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, Washington D.C.
April 14th, 1876.
25 pages. 8vo, original printed yellow buff wrappers.
A FINE COPY
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Washington, 1876
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A RARE COPY OF THIS HISTORIC ORATION
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There are perhaps two speeches by Frederick
Douglass that stand out from all the rest. The 1852 Rochester, Fourth of July oration, which is
often called his “Fifth of July” oration; delivered two years after the Fugitive Slave Act, in a
voice, bitter with disappointment; and the present one, a celebration of freedom and an evalua-
tion of Abraham Lincoln, as the deliverer of the colored race in America. But it is also, the
occasion of the first time the African American people had funded and erected a monument of
any sort, to anyone.
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