Collection of Frederick Douglass' Monthly's, booklets, and other materials

Anacostia Community Museum

September 1860, Vol.III: N0. IV

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Object Details

Summary

This collection, which dates from circa 1859-1894, contains materials relating to abolitionist Frederick Douglass. It includes several of his speeches reproduced in booklets and pamphlets, a visiting card, a portrait bearing his autograph, and 28 issues of Douglass'Monthly, which ran from 1858 to 1863.

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GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/qa76c9cebf5-686e-4da0-8804-db9f1579d890

Names

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Topic

Antislavery movements -- United States

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Collection of Frederick Douglass' Monthly's, booklets, and other materials

Biographical/Historical note

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore but fled north in 1838 to settle in Massachussetts. He soon joined the antislavery movement, and by the mid-1840s his commanding eloquence in offering firsthand testimony to the oppressions of slavery had transformed him into one of the movement's most persuasive spokesmen. Douglass' reforming zeal remained strong all his life. After the Civil War put an end to slavery, he continued to be a leading defender of the rights of African Americans during Reconstruction.