“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
~Frederick Douglass, 1857
A Monthly Grocery List from the
Douglass Household
December 9
Coffee
Cheese
.26
.20
December 13
1 Dozen Eggs
.14
December 19
Coffee
Tea
Salt
.25
.10
.05
Grocery Bill for December
$17.76
Susan B. Anthony
“It was we the people
not we, the white
male citizens: nor yet
we, the male citizens
but we, the whole people, who
formed the Union.”
Abolitionist Newspapers
Abraham Lincoln
The Emancipation Proclamation
A letter written in 1863 authorizing Frederick
Douglass to go to D.C. as an agent to recruit
African American troops
African American Civil War Troops
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist: Frederick Douglass, Helen Pitts, Anna Murray, Ottilie Assing, Eva Pitts
Helen
Frederick
Ottilie
Anna
Eva
Abraham Lincoln’s Cane
Thank You Letter to Mrs. Lincoln
Rochester. N.Y. August 17. 1865.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln:
Dear Madam:
Allow me to thank you as I certainly do thank you most sincerely for
your thoughtful kindness in making me the owner if a cane which was
formerly the property and the favorite walking staff of your late laminted
husband - the honored and venerated President of the United States. I
assure you, that this inestimable memento of his presidency will be retained
in my possession while I live - an object of sacred interest - a token not
merely of the kind consideration in which I have reason to know that the
President was pleased to hold me personally, but is an indication of his
humane interest [in the] welfare of my whole race. With every proper
sentiment of Respect and Esteem,
I am, Dear Madam, your obedient servant,
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
President Benjamin Harrison & Others
The Home of the Douglass Family
The Home THEN
The Home NOW
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
~Frederick Douglass, 1857