Correspondence, Volume 2 (Unpublished--To Transcribe)

Ethiop [William J. Wilson] to Frederick Douglass, September 16, 1854

Ethiop [William J. Wilson] to Frederick Douglass. PLSr: Frederick DouglassP, 22 September 1854. Argues for separate schools for blacks in Brooklyn; bemoans the lack of letters from Communipaw [James McCune Smith], Observer [James N. Still], and others.

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Ethiop [William J. Wilson] to Frederick Douglass, September 23, 1854

Ethiop [William J. Wilson] to Frederick Douglass. PLSr: Frederick DouglassP, 29 September 1854. Calls on black ministers to take more responsibility in their communities; compares the problems in schools to those of the church.

Ethiop [William J. Wilson] to Frederick Douglass, September 29, 1854

Ethiop [William J. Wilson] to Frederick Douglass. PLSr: Frederick DouglassP, 6 October 1854. Defends his arguments, regarding the education of black children, from the attacks of church leaders who argue that blacks should attend white schools.

F. to Frederick Douglass, December 15, 1854

F. to Frederick Douglass. PLIr: Frederick DouglassP, 15 December 1854. Criticizes Douglass's editorial on the Cleveland Convention; claims that it ridicules rather than reasons against it.

F. to Frederick Douglass, December 22, 1854

F. to Frederick Douglass. PLIr: Frederick DouglassP, 22 December 1854. Objects to Douglass's editorial on the Cleveland Convention; claims distinctive terms, such as "black" and "colored" are effects of distinction, not causes of it.

F. to Frederick Douglass, January 4, 1855

F. to Frederick Douglass. PLIr: Frederick DouglassP, 4 January 1855. Defends the recent Emigration Convention.

Frederick Douglass to Gerrit Smith, December 15, 1854

Frederick Douglass to Gerrit Smith. ALS: Gerrit Smith Papers, NSyU. Reports having received copies of Smith's speeches; mentions forthcoming lectures in New England.

Frederick Douglass to S[amuel] J. May, R. R. Raymond, R. W. Pease, November 29, 1854

Frederick Douglass to S[amuel] J. May, R. R. Raymond, R. W. Pease. ALS. Anti-Slavery Collection, MB. Suggests a date of 11 December for Douglass’s lecture in Syracuse, New York.

Frederick Douglass to [Charles H. Plummer], January 9, 1855

Frederick Douglass to [Charles H. Plummer]. ALS: L.S. Alexander Gumby Collection of Negroiana, NNC. Informs him of the planned meeting of "Mr. Marshall," a former slave, who will be speaking in Taunton, Massachusetts.

G. P. I. to Frederick Douglass, January 1855

G. P. I. to Frederick Douglass. PLIr: Frederick DouglassP, 19 January 1855. Comments on George T. Downing's defense of the practice of withholding black lecturers' names from course lists because of pecuniary damages.