Frederick Douglass gives a speech celebrating emancipation...
NEW YORK HERALD, Aug. 2, 1865
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Page 5 begins with column heads: "THE NEGRO" "Celebration of the Thirty0-first Anniversary of West Indian Emancipation" "Great Gathering of Colored People at Myrtle Avenue Park" "Stirring Speeches by Prof. W. Howard Day and Fred. Douglas" "Interesting Particulars".
This takes about two-thirds of the page & includes a brief speech by Frederick Douglass in which says in part: "...We are to rejoice over West India emancipation and over the progress of freedom in the United States....No man here wants to know whether Liberty is a good thing and Slavery a bad thing; we all know it..." and more.
Eight pages, slightly irregular at the blank spine from disbinding, good condition.
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