The Future of the Negro in this Country Speech to the Emancipation League in Daily Evening Traveller, Thursday, February 6, 1862

by Frederick Douglass

$1,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Boston: Worthington, Flanders & Co, 1862. Complete issue of the Daily Evening Traveller newspaper. 4pp. Very Good+ with tattered spine, soft folds, small holes not affecting the Douglass text. The first account of a 90 minute speech delivered to the Emancipation League on the evening of February 5, 1862. The Daily Traveller commented that few men, if any, better understand the character of the negro

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