DOUGLASS, FREDERICK

Reply... to Dr. Cox. In The Liberator for 27 November 1846. Folio, unbound; small hole at fold, affecting several words of text. Boston, 1846 After publication of his Narrative in 1845 and his subsequent flight from the United States, Douglass embarked on a series of speaking engagements in Great Britain. At one such lecture he spoke out against the American Temperance movement, declaring it to be indifferent to the plight of free negroes and slaves. This caused an uproar amongst the attending clergy and led Rev. Samuel Hanson Cox of Brooklyn to brand Douglass, "A colored abolition agitator, and ultraist." Douglass's scathingly sarcastic reply covers most of the front page of the present piece.