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Auction: 318 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1520

Douglass, Frederick. Perhaps the greatest and most insightful defender of civil rights in the 19th Century, African-American social reformer, abolitionist, renowned for his brilliant oratory, writer, statesman, advisor to Lincoln; a firm believer in the equality of all people, Douglass was famously quoted saying "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong;" appointed U.S. Marshall in 1877, Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia in 1881, later consul-General to Haiti. Autograph Document Signed "Fredk. Douglass" as Recorder of Land Deeds. One page, 8 ½ x 3 1/2", real estate transaction release form of John T. Arms, 810 F St., Washington D.C., Dec. 7, 1883. Embossed seal upper right. A Fine example. Attractively matted with an engraving of Douglass and framed.

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