(DOUGLASS FREDERICK) Frederick Douglass Newspaper Volume IV

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(DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.) Frederick Douglass' Newspaper. Volume IV, No. 35. August 21, 1851. Large bi-folium leaf, folded to form four pages; creases where folded with two holes at the spine where the folds conjoin; some very slight and even toning consistent with age; original subscriber's name at the top of the masthead. Rochester, 1851

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The lead article (the entire front page) is on the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, hosts to Douglass during his stay in England in 1845. Also contains an open letter from ex-slave and Underground Railroad conductor Jermain Loguen to Frederick Douglass on the Fugitive Slave Law and Douglass's activity in the movement.