J[ames] W. Duffin to Frederick Douglass, March 11, 1856

ANOTHER IMPOSTER.

FRIEND DOUGLASS:—Permit me, through the columns of your valuable journal, to caution the public against a colored woman calling herself Cecelia Barker. She travels with a babe in her arms, and a daughter along with her as an assistant. She represents that her husband is a fugitive from Slavery, and is about to be taken back again to the South, unless she can raise a certain sum to redeem him, which statement is entirely false. Said Barker has never been a slave, and money given to his wife will be squandered in reveling and drunkenness.

J. W. DUFFIN

GENEVA, March 11th, 1856.