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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08950 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1870s |
| Title | U. S. Grant and the colored people |
| Date | 17 July 1872 |
| Author | Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895) |
| Document Type | Pamphlet |
| Content Description | Urging black voters to re-elect President Grant. Subtitled "His wise, just practical, and effective friendship thoroughly vindicated by incontestable facts in his record from 1862-1872." Addressed "To the Colored People of the United States." Defends Grant as a friend of African Americans and catalogs the ways in which he has helped the black race. Two months prior to this letter Douglass declined Victoria Woodhull's offer to run as her Vice-President on the Equal Rights Party ticket. |
| Subjects | African American Author African American History President Politics Government and Civics Election |
| People | Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895) Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885) |
| Place written | Washington, D.C. |
| Theme | African Americans; Government & Politics; The Presidency |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |