Note Footnotes — Introductory material
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[1] Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, chap. xxii, pp. 345-46.
[2] Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, chap. xxii, pp. 351-53.
[3] Liberator, Dec. 15, 1840.
[4] Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, chap. v, p. 288.
[5] Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, chap. vi, p. 249.
[6] Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, chap. xxiv, p. 385.
[7] Ibid., loc. cit.
[8] Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, chap. xxiv, p. 373.
[9] Nephews of Garrison’s old detractor.
[10] Letter dated August 28, 1847. Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, Vol. III, chap. vii, p. 202.
[11] Du Bois, John Brown, chap. iv, p. 55. (Origin: Records of the Board of Trustees, Oberlin College, Aug. 28, 1840.)
[12] Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, chap. vii, pp. 337-39.
[13] Du Bois, John Brown, chap. vi, p. 126.
[14] Du Bois, John Brown, chap. vi, p. 133.
[15] Du Bois, John Brown, chap. vii, p. 147.
[16] Du Bois, John Brown, chap. vii, p. 153.
[17] Du Bois, John Brown, chap. iv, p. 144.
[18] Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, chap. x, p. 385.
[19] Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, chap. ix, p. 397.
[20] Du Bois, Black Reconstruction, chap. vi, p. 157.
[21] Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, chap. xii, p. 442.
[22] Du Bois, Black Reconstruction, chap. xi, p. 464.
[23] New Orleans Tribune, Jan. 17, 1865.
[24] Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, chap. viii, pp. 467-68.
[25] The original of this petition was recently unearthed in the Historical Archives of South Carolina. On the back of the document was a notation: “This petition was not read in the Convention.” Signed; John T. Sloa, Clerk of Convention. Printed in article by Herbert Aptaker, Journal of Negro History, January, 1946.
[26] Congressional Globe, “39th Congress,” I, p. 74.
[27] Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, chap. xvii, p. 561.
[28] C. P. Farrell (Editor), The Political Speeches of Robert Ingersoll, Dresden edition.
[29] Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, chap. xiv, pp. 486-88.
[30] Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (appendix), chap. ii, p. 631.
[31] Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, III, chap. v, p. 647.
[32] Ibid., III, chap. ix, p. 707.
[33] Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, III, chap. ix, p. 723.
[34] Logan, Diplomatic Relations of United States with Haiti, chap. xv, p. 457.
[35] The Liberator, March 27, 1846.