Toussaint Louverture

Scope and Contents This collection consists of two letters by Frederick Douglass, and a reproduction of a third letter. Correspondence includes a November 1890 letter written from the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C. to his friend Lucy N. Coleman. In it Douglass mentions his role in "putting an end to that barbarian under Zion church." Douglass also laments being "on the wrong side of seventy." Also included is an eight-page letter written from the Hotel Britannique in Paris...