FREDERICK DOUGLASS editor Issue of Frederick Douglass Paper

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS, editor. Issue of "Frederick Douglass' Paper." 4 pages, 26½ x 19 inches; foxing, folds, lacking 6 x 5-inch portion of upper corner. Rochester, NY, 23 November 1855

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A defective issue of a scarce and important paper. Among the articles are an exclusive report on educator Mary Ann Shadd Cary; propositions from the "Convention of Radical Abolitionists" held in Boston; a report headlined "The Union Surely in Danger!" on the Georgia governor's plan to "dissolve the Union at no distant date"; a speech by Charles Sumner; and a long detailed advertisement for Douglass' own newly published memoir "My Bondage and My Freedom."