Mar 26, 2015 - Sale 2377

Sale 2377 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. "What the Black Man Wants," appearing in The Equality of All Men before the Law, Claimed and Defended in Speeches by Hon. William D. Kelley, Wendell Phillips, and Frederick Douglass. 44 pages, printed in double column. Tall 8vo, lacking the wrappers. Boston, 1865

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As the Civil War was winding down and literally millions of African Americans recently in bondage were going to take their place among their one-time owners and the rest of the nation, there arose a hue and cry about just what the black man wanted. Here Douglass addresses the issue head on.