(SLAVERY ABOLITION) Admission card to the funeral of Freder

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Sale 2708 - Lot 177

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(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Admission card to the funeral of Frederick Douglass. Black-bordered printed card reading "Admit to the Obsequies of Frederick Douglass, Metropolitan A.M.E. Church"; minor foxing and wear, mount remnants on verso, inscribed in pencil on verso "colored minister." [Washington], 25 February 1895

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News accounts show that participants in the ceremony included suffragist Susan B. Anthony, who read a eulogy; a requiem sung by the last surviving member of the abolitionist Hutchinson Singers who had accompanied Douglass to England; and even a tribute from B.F. Auld, son of the master from whom Douglass had escaped in 1838. No other examples traced at auction or in OCLC.

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