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The Non-Slaveholder, volumes 1 and 2

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09399 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Header Record Date: 1846-1847 Pagination: 200 p. : , 288 p. : Order a Copy

The Non-Slaveholder, Volumes I and II. Contains two Frederick Douglass letters describing his treatment on the ship in which he returned to the United States in 1847. "…not one of all of them had paid more for their passage than I had, yet while I was confined like a criminal to a certain part of the ship because of my colour, they enjoyed the privilege of going at large, and in the spacious saloon from which I was excluded." Vol. I 200 pp. Vol. II 288 pp.

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