On Frederick Douglass running for office, in an anti-slavery newspaper...
NATIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY STANDARD, New York, June 29, 1848 This newspaper was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, established in 1840 & was published continuously until the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1870.
Page 3 has: "Douglass And the Leaguers" and is nice article concerning Frederick Douglass and his running for Vice President of the League Convention.
Frederick Douglass ran for President of the United States, at the National Liberty Party convention in 1848. Douglass became the first Black person to run for President, though he received only one vote at the convention.
Among other articles: "Southern Disaffection" "Voice of the Revolutionary Fathers" "A Southerner & A Slaverholder's Letter" "Slave Products" and more.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, nice condition. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.