Manuscript/Mixed Material Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec.
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Image 1 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE CHICAGO COMMISSION HAITIENNE Nov 4th 1892 Dear Mrs Keeler I give you thanks for your deeply interesting letter and the newspaper article you were so good to send me…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 2 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. South Your righteous cause would raise up friends for you The means you would need to live and travel would flow to you and you would be the instrument under Divine grace…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1892-11
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Image 3 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. Washington Nov 9 1892 Dear Mr Douglas I was delighted to receive a letter from you and to know that you are interested in a matter that has bowed my soul to…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 4 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. incompetency but go on One thing I know and that is I must get this load off my heart or I shall die beneath its weight I have never seen nor heard…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 5 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. CO Keeler to F Douglass 1 of 2 pray no more but went to work the best I could I wrote the article which I enclose and which found its way into…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 6 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. I myself was taken very sick etc Suffice it to say I have now a large amount of evidence most of it official evidence that will startle the people How to get…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 7 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. Not even my husband has ever known how I have felt If I try to shake it off life becomes a blank Nothing gives me any comfort or joy Then perhaps there…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 8 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. Nov 9 1892 2 of 2 a man engaged in NY to make my electrotypes for printing but have not yet got my camera It has been suggested to me more than…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 9 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. You may return the article I enclose as it is the last I have It was clipped from a Mass paper there was such a call for it that the Ed had…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 10 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. help to make up the chain gangs of the South and they are treated worse than brutes May the Lord help us to break up such infernal work COK I Keeler to…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 11 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. Washington Nov 9th 92 Hon Frederick Douglass Dear Sir Your kind letter to my wife leads me also to reply In early life she suffered from the cruel treatment of her mother…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 12 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. in the New York Weekly Witness calling for printed matter to be sent South for distribution among the colored people I then saw she had a missionary spirit to me a very…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 13 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. 4 All the material for it yet she required some help in preparing the article for the Witness which was sent you I think that as a companion of Miss Wells while…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 14 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. 5 admit the publication of a small paper in the interests of prison reform and of the colored people yet I have not encouraged her in this but wish such a paper…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 15 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. that ought to be given and he sometimes sentences to heavier fines and longer imprisonment than is just and right He not infrequently sentences a man or boy to one two or…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 16 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. 8 and to obscure the natural light of conscience But he now shows little or no pity for the people he has wronged Again about two years ago I was searching through…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 17 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. 9 in South Carolina a small theft is punishable only by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of thirty days or thereabouts When such marked differences are found in statute…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 18 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. of government and laws are defective in that the nation throws its sheltering arm around its citizen in a foreign land and protects him from mob violence and if not secures to…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 19 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE CHICAGO COMMISSION HAÃTIENNE Washington Nov 15th 1892 Honorable Frederick Douglass Commissioner of Hayti Anacostia DC Dear Sir I have the honor to enclose herewith a Bill of Exchange for…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1892-11
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Image 20 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. to sign the former and to return it at the earliest opportunity to Mr Preston In my acknowledgement to him of the receipt of these documents I deemed it proper to remind…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 21 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. Cedar Hill Anacostia DC November 18 1892 Dr Wolfe Fiske and Co Gentlemen The promised volume of the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass has at last reached me I was very…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1892-11
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Image 22 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. I have been appointed a by the Republic of Haiti Commissioner to the Worlds Columbian Exposition and I expect to spend about six months of next year in Chicago The occasion will…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1892-11
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Image 23 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. Stanford Conn Monday Nov 21 1892 My dear Mr Douglass I thank you twice first for writing you admirable letter of the 10th instant on the election and secondly for putting the…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1892-11
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Image 24 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. crushing defeat I spoke less and took a less conspicuous personal part in the canvass than usual but my disappointment over the result was none the less on that account for my…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 25 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. assist my united family in the arduous task of disposing of the Thanksgiving Turkey at the home of my eldest son William at Colllinsville in this State You may remember meeting him…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1892-11
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Image 26 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. of the plan of campaign as eminently just and it bore its legitimate fruit what a cold and sordid Ecclesiasticism is to true Piety Machine Politics is to true Patriotism both ultimately…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 27 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. speakers during the late campaign The Democrats are never tired of reminding us that the war is over The war is not over nor will it be over until every an qualified…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 28 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. from Europe very much broken in health as might be expected in one of his extreme age I send you with this a copy of his latest work in which I think…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 29 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. Port au Prince Haiti November 26 1982 Honorable Frederick Douglass Cedar Hill Anacostia Washington DC Dear friend Your letter accompanied by the AME Magasine came safely to hand giving me the assurance…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1892-11
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Image 30 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. election our endorsement of their action towards our race and our approval of the outrages committed on the colored and women in the South I think that moving of the colored voters…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 31 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. left here 3 weeks ago on a leave of absence the report of his presence at Washington at the time mentioned in your letter is a mistake he was at StoDomingo at…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1892-11
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Image 32 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. OFFICE OF C B BARNES SECRETARY OF THE REPUBLICAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF RANDOLPH COUNTY Cuthbert Ga Nov 30 1892 Hon Fred Douglass Washington DC Dear Sir and honored friend I write you…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1892-11
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Image 33 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. OFFICE OF C B BARNES 2 SECRETARY OF THE REPUBLICAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF RANDOLPH COUNTY Cuthbert Ga 189 printed given your views of the cause I wish you would Send me one…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 34 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. OFFICE OF C B BARNES 3 SECRETARY OF THE REPUBLICAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF RANDOLPH COUNTY Cuthbert Ga 189 he is an all right gentleman and we can have faith in him if…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1892-11
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Image 35 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. Chicago Dec 1st 1982 Hon Ferderick Douglass Washington DC Dear Sir I have written you asking for your autograph a few months ago and received no reply from you I beg you…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1892-11
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Image 36 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. HERMAN C KUDLICH GEORGE H FINCK LAW OFFICES OF KUDLICH FINCK MORESE BUILDING 140 NASSAU STREET ROOM 55 In re VS losing shale New York Dec 1st 1892 Hon Frederick Douglass Anacostia…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 37 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. Bridport Dec 8th 1892 Dear Mr Douglass I expect that I am indebted to you for a copy of the Boston Times Herald of the 28th Sept with your Address on The…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1892-11
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Image 38 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. wider public of readers I hope that it will have the good effort of keeping the Negroes of the North from deserting the Republican party a Suicidal step it wld be for…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 39 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. any friend staying with me We shall be a quiet party at Bridge They are all much attached to my dear husband feel very loss to some extent theirs also This time…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
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Image 40 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec. I hope that Mrs Douglass is well her mother will be very glad to have her back from Haiti With kind regards to Mrs Douglass I am ever most sincerely yours Mary…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1892-11
About this Item
Title
- Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1892, Nov.-Dec.
Names
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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- - United States--Politics and government--19th century
- - Abolitionists
- - Civil rights
- - Women's rights
- - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906--Correspondence
- - Assing, Ottilie--Correspondence
- - Bassett, Ebenezer D., 1833-1908--Correspondence
- - Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898--Correspondence
- - Douglass, Anna Murray, -1882
- - Douglass, Lewis, 1840-1908--Correspondence
- - Douglass, Joseph H. (Joseph Henry), 1871-1935
- - Draz, Rosine Ame--Correspondence
- - Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879--Correspondence
- - Griffiths, Julia, -1895--Correspondence
- - Richardson family--Correspondence
- - Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874--Correspondence
- - Sprague, Rosetta Douglass--Correspondence
- - Wagoner, Henry O.--Correspondence
- - Webb family--Correspondence
- - Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931--Correspondence
- - African American newspapers--New York (State)--Rochester
- - African Americans--Washington (D.C.)
- - Slaves--Emancipation
- - Orators
- - Douglass, Helen, 1838-1903. Helen Douglass papers
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
- - United States -- District of Columbia -- Washington, D.C
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- Manuscripts
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- series: General Correspondence, 1841-1912
- mss11879, box 9; reel 6
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- Frederick Douglass Papers
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- 19th Century
- Abolitionists
- African American Newspapers
- African Americans
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell)
- Assing, Ottilie
- Bassett, Ebenezer D.
- Bruce, Blanche Kelso
- Civil Rights
- Correspondence
- Douglass, Anna Murray
- Douglass, Helen,. Helen Douglass Papers
- Douglass, Joseph H. (Joseph Henry)
- Douglass, Lewis
- Draz, Rosine Ame
- Emancipation
- Garrison, William Lloyd
- Griffiths, Julia
- Manuscripts
- New York (State)
- Orators
- Politics and Government
- Richardson Family
- Rochester
- Slaves
- Smith, Gerrit
- Sprague, Rosetta Douglass
- United States
- Wagoner, Henry O.
- Washington (D.C.)
- Webb Family
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
- Women's Rights