Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass; One on West India Emancipation, Delivered at Canandaigua, August 4th and the other on the Dred Scott Decision, Delivered in New York May, 1857. 46 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers, lacks rear cover; few small

Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass; One on West India Emancipation, Delivered at Canandaigua, August 4th and the other on the Dred Scott Decision, Delivered in New York May, 1857. 46 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers, lacks rear cover; few small chips at corners; spine mostly lacking. Interior clean. Rochester, 1857 E2,000/3,000 FIRST EDITION of these important speeches. The more important and timely is the second: the Dred Scott decision had been reached only months before in March 1857. Not mentioned by William McFeely in his biography of Douglass; not in Blockson or Hampton Collections or Work; Schomburg Collection, Rare 326.4-D. [SEE ILLUSTRATION]