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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 to unknown

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05716 Author/Creator: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: January 1883 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 13.2 cm, Width: 12.2 cm Order a Copy

Sends his autograph to an unknown recipient with a quotation: "What does it imply? The Mongolian, the Hebrew, the African, the least aggressive and sanguinary of men, why are the most hated and persecuted by Christian nations?"

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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