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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC00470.01 |
| From Archive Folder | Letters from Sumner to Frederick Douglass |
| Title | Charles Sumner to Frederick Douglass requesting a meeting |
| Date | ca. December 1870 |
| Author | Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Sumner, a Senator from Massachusetts tried the previous day to locate Douglass at his office, but was too late. Writes "I beg to talk with you about the Republican party & its perils to which I fear you are not sufficiently sensible... Pray don't drive the wedge to split us. Let us try to leave the colored people in their rights..." Dated "Sunday." Not in Douglass's or Sumner's Papers and apparently unpublished. |
| Subjects | Politics African American History Republican Party Caribbean Civil Rights |
| People | Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895) |
| Place written | Washington, D.C. |
| Theme | African Americans; Government & Politics |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | Opponents abandoned Grant and the Republicans in the 1872 elections over the issue of annexation of Santo Domingo, and corruption scandals such as Crédit Mobilier. Grant won reelection in 1872 over Horace Greeley, but the Republican Party would soon be eclipsed. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
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