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Book/Printed MaterialThe claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 Last page blank. Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 3227 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of the YA Collection: YA 25597.
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Douglass, Frederick - Western Reserve College
- Date: 1854
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Book/Printed MaterialThe immediate issue: a speech of Wendell Phillips at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at Boston. What the black man wants : speech of Frederick Douglass at the annual ... Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 19840. Source: Source unknown.
- Contributor: Phillips, Wendell - Heighton, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Wright, Elizur - Stearns, Geo. L. (George Luther) - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1860
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Book/Printed MaterialU.S. Grant and the colored people. : His wise, just, practical, and effective friendship thoroughly vindicated by incontestable facts in his record from 1862 to 1872. : Words of truth and soberness! ... A brief address in the midst of the 1872 election campaign designed to document Ulysses S. Grant's support for African American liberation and civil rights. Douglass hoped thereby to rally the Black vote for Grant.
- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Douglass, Frederick - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Union Republican Congressional Committee
- Date: 1872
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Book/Printed MaterialAddress by Hon. Frederick Douglass, delivered in the Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, January 9th, 1894, on The lessons of the hour : in which he discusses the various aspects of ...
Lessons of the hour Speech by an agitated Douglass about the so-called "Negro problem" in the South. He is pessimistic about prospects for overcoming racial prejudice among southern whites and for securing full legal equality for southern Blacks. The solution to the "Negro problem" is liberty and full equality for African Americans.- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Metropolitan A.M.E. Church (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1894
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Book/Printed MaterialThe race problem: great speech of Frederick Douglass, delivered before the Bethel Literary and Historical Association, in the Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, Washington, D.C., October 21, 1890. In this speech, the elder Douglass reacts to southern "Resurrectionists" and their attempts to deprive southern Blacks of their recently won civil rights. He examines the so-called "Negro problem" in this light and expresses his faith that the federal government will continue to enforce civil rights for African Americans in the South.
- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Douglass, Frederick - Bethel Literary and Historical Association of Washington, D.C. - Metropolitan A.M.E. Church (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1890
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Book/Printed MaterialAddress by Hon. Frederick Douglass, delivered in the Congregational Church, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1883, on the twenty-first anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia. Douglass's evaluation of where African Americans stand in 1883. He leans towards optimism despite denial of justice and the ballot, lynchings, etc., and sees the African American's future in assimilation, not in colonization in Africa or in extinction through poverty.
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - First Congregational Church (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1883
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Book/Printed MaterialFree church alliance with manstealers: send back the money; great anti-slavery meeting in the City Hall, Glasgow, containing speeches delivered by Messrs. Wright, Douglass, and Buffum, from America, and by George Thompson, ... Cover title. Prefatory letter signed: Henry C. Wright. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Thompson, George - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Buffum, James N. - Wright, Henry Clarke - Douglass, Frederick - Glasgow Emancipation Society (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Date: 1846
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Book/Printed MaterialJohn Brown : an address Douglass, in a highly personal speech, praises John Brown as a real hero of the abolitionist cause and seeks to promote a better understanding of the raid upon Harper's Ferry. Ends with a few words about Brown's companions in the raid.
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1881
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Book/Printed MaterialOration by Frederick Douglass, delivered 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. With an appendix. A speech celebrating both Lincoln and African Americans freedom wrought by Lincoln. Douglass views the monument and the day's ceremonies as reflecting honor upon African Americans. The program includes an account of how the statue was financed, beginning with small donations from freed slaves.
- Contributor: Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Douglass, Frederick - Briggs, Morris H. (Morris Henry) - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Stern, Alfred Whital
- Date: 1876
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Book/Printed MaterialAddresses of the Hon. W. D. Kelley, Miss Anna E. Dickinson, and Mr. Frederick Douglass, at a mass meeting, held at National Hall, Philadelphia, July 6, 1863, for the promotion of colored ... Caption title. Official communication of the Commission for United States Colored Troops: p. 8. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy inscribed in pencil on p. [1]: 40592. LAC snh 2019-05-28 no edits (1 card)
- Contributor: United States. Commission for United States Colored Troops - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Douglass, Frederick - Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) - Kelley, William D. (William Darrah)
- Date: 1863
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Book/Printed MaterialLecture on Haiti : the Haitian Pavilion dedication ceremonies delivered at the World's Fair, in Jackson Park, Chicago, Jan. 2d, 1893 Douglass discusses the character and history of Haiti, its evolution from slavery to a free and independent republic, and its relationship to African Americans. He expresses optimism about the country's future despite numerous drawbacks and problems.
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - World's Columbian Exposition
- Date: 1893
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