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Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

An excerpt from the 1899 Charles Chesnutt biography of Frederick Douglass.

An excerpt from the 1899 Charles Chesnutt biography of Frederick Douglass.

Citation Information: Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, excerpt of “Frederick Douglass,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/8c59663029792e36b14d630cad59dfd6.

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Courtesy of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill via North Carolina Digital Heritage Center.

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An excerpt from the 1899 Charles Chesnutt biography of Frederick Douglass.

An excerpt from the 1847 Frederick Douglass speech given for the anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

The text of Frederick Douglass’s most famous speech, given in 1852, “What, to a slave, is the Fourth of July?”

A chapter describing Douglass’s early encounters with abolitionists, from his autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom, 1857.

An excerpt from a late nineteenth-century biography of Abraham Lincoln written by Noah Brooks.

The texts of two Lincoln speeches, one on the Dred Scott decision and the First Inaugural Address.

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