Letter from Frederick Douglass to Anne Tyson Kirk
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Handwritten letter from Frederick Douglass to Anne Tyson Kirk in which he inquires on the progress of a published biography on astronomer and fellow Maryland native Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), based on the writings of Kirk's mother Martha Ellicott Tyson (1795-1873). He thinks that "every colored man who reads will want it, and those who cannot will want their children to read it." Douglass also remarks that "if I am right in this I will take fifty copies of the first Edition for gratuitous circulation."
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1882-04-11