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Collection Reference Number GLC04997
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1880s 
Title Frederick Douglass to Robert Adams regarding African American voters
Date 4 December 1888
Author Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)  
Recipient Adams, Robert  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description He is disturbed over the "clamour raised for the disfranchisement of the colored voters of the South." Written on letterhead from Cedar Hill, Douglass's Washington, D.C. home.
Subjects Jim Crow  Suffrage  Reconstruction  African American History  Civil Rights  Government and Civics  
People Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)  Adams, Robert (fl. 1888)  
Place written Washington, D.C.
Theme African Americans; Government & Politics; Reconstruction
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Additional Information Douglass was an American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer. He was born a slave, learned to read from a kind owner, and escaped slavery by going North, where he became involved in several abolitionist groups. He published several newspapers. During Reconstruction he served as president of the Freedman's Savings Bank and worked with Haiti and Santo Domingo. In Washington, D.C. , Douglass was appointed Recorder of Deeds.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945