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DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. Address... Delivered in the Congregational Church... on the Twenty-First Anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia
[cover title]. 16 pages. 8vo, original lettered wrappers. (Washington, 1883)
- Notes: first edition of a speech given at a crucial point in Douglass's personal life. His wife had died in 1882 and by the following summer he was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. He directs this address to the seeming immobility of the Negro race, despite emancipation and the right to vote. "Until the colored man's pathway to the American ballot box, North and South, shall be safe and smooth, this discussion will go on. Until the courts of the country shall grant a colored man a fair trial and a just verdict, this discussion will go on..." Not in Work, Blockson or any mention in William McFeely's exhaustive biography. Hampton 4806; Howard II, page 43.
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