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- GLC#
- GLC00470.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 1870
- Author/Creator
- Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
- Title
- to Frederick Douglass
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 20.8 cm, Width: 13.7 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Sumner, a Senator from Massachusetts tried the previous day to locate Douglass at his office, but was too late. Writes "I beg to talk with you about the Republican party & its perils to which I fear you are not sufficiently sensible... Pray don't drive the wedge to split us. Let us try to leave the colored people in their rights..." Dated "Sunday." Not in Douglass's or Sumner's Papers and apparently unpublished.
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