Raynors 2012-09
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A complete and authentic issue of the New York Tribune, July 7, 1875, 10pp., disbound, VG. From the fron page, “Frederick Douglass Fifth of July Oration.” In small part Douglass is quoted “All we ask is a fair field to work in, and the white man to leave us alone. We have been injured more than we have been helped by men who have professed to be our friends. ... They misrepresent us, and cause the country to look upon us as a poor and helpless people. ... We do not want, we will not have, these second-rate men begging for us. ...” Then Douglass comments of the Freedman’s Bank, “We have had the Freedman’s Savings Bank, but we don’t want anymore. ... Our white friends told us ... they would take care of them. ... It makes me feel badly to think how we have been robbed ...” Douglass. unaware of the corruption in the Freedman’s Bank, served as President in 1874. The bank failed later that year.
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