(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) LOGUEN JERMAIN Autograph Letter Sign

Sale 2342 - Lot 93

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) LOGUEN, JERMAIN. Autograph Letter Signed to his daughter Amelia. St Louis, March 6, 1869. 4to leaf, folded to form four pages, written on all sides; creases where folded; neat split at the vertical fold. Np,

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a rare letter from jermain loguen (1813-1872), escaped slave, minister and underground railroad conductor to his daughter Amelia. Amelia was at this time engaged to Frederick Douglass' son Lewis who she would marry six months later. Loguen, writing from St. Louis has some harsh words for the city's colored population, saying that there are 20,000 colored people there, 'but oh what a place for colored people - they are behind the times,' - and in regard to the people of Chicago: 'I do not know what to say about the people in Chicago—they are a strange set of people, one thing I know they are a fast people and a bad people too I think. Some fine ones I think among them, but they are scarce.'