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- GLC#
- GLC08950
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 17 July 1872
- Author/Creator
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
- Title
- U. S. Grant and the colored people
- Pagination
- 8 p. : Height: 25.5 cm, Width: 16 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Urging black voters to re-elect President Grant. Subtitled "His wise, just practical, and effective friendship thoroughly vindicated by incontestable facts in his record from 1862-1872." Addressed "To the Colored People of the United States." Defends Grant as a friend of African Americans and cataloges the ways in which he has helped the black race. Two months prior to this letter Douglass declined Victoria Woodhull's offer to run as her Vice-President on the Equal Rights Party ticket.
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