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“VERY TRULY YOURS FOR THE SLAVE”
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) DOUGLASS, FRED-
ERICK.
Autograph Letter Signed, addressed to Lewis
Tappan.
Single folio leaf, written on one side only. Tastefully
framed, within a large matte. Attached to the rear of the frame is
an old bookseller’s description of this letter together with two
19th century engravings of Douglass.
Rochester, NY, 28 March 1854
[25,000/35,000]
A LETTER WITH EXCELLENT CONTENT
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AND A FINE ASSOCIATION
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Douglass writes to his old friend Lewis Tappan, one of the leading aboli-
tionists in the country. “My dear Sir, I accept with pleasure the invitation
to be present at the anniversary of the American and Foreign Anti-
Slavery Society, to be held in New York on the tenth of next May. I have
been invited to attend the Anti-Slavery Convention to be held in
Cincinnati April 11th 12th and 13th and had intended to have
remained in Ohio a number of weeks thereafter, but with a view to being
present at your ‘one man society,’ on the interesting occasion of its
anniversary, I shall abridge my stay. We are all well here and are working
away without the abatement of heart or hope. It looks just now like the
South would catch a tartar in the Kansas-Nebraska Bill. Very truly yours
for the slave, Frederick Douglass.”