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DOUGLASS RESIGNS FROM COMPANY HEADED FOR SCANDAL DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. Autograph Note Signed, tendering his resignation as Director and President of
DOUGLASS RESIGNS FROM COMPANY HEADED FOR SCANDAL DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. Autograph Note Signed, tendering his resignation as Director and President of the Freedom Manufacturing Company, 3 1/4x7 inches; matted and framed with an engraved portrait of Douglass. Np, circa 1893
- Notes: The Freedom Manufacturing Company was founded in 1893 to give employment to African-Americans. Douglass was the president and James Hill the vice-president. Among the board members were Walter Thomas and William Wishart, who developed a "confidence game" whereby they sold stock in a company which never really got off the ground. The failure of the company and the exposure of the swindle caused much embarrassment to the well-known black figures who had unwittingly become involved on the board of the company.
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