Douglass, Frederick. Letter to Isaac Post.

Title

Douglass, Frederick. Letter to Isaac Post.

Creator

Douglass, Frederick

Contributor

Post, Isaac, 1798-1872

Date

1849-09-16

Description

Handwritten letter from Frederick Douglass to Isaac Post. Douglass writes to Post and asks him to serve on the finance committee for his newspaper, the North Star.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

758

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Transcription

(Page 1)

                 Fultor_ 16^th Sept 1849
Isaac Post:
                  My Dear Friend:
                                              It was my full intention before leaving
Rochester on my present mission – to have made a formal
and deffinite request of you to become a member of a
committee, which should take the financial management
of the North Star into their own hands. Failing to perform this
duty then- I now write to urgently solicit you, as a personal
favor to me- and as a help to the cause of the slave, to be
and to act as a member of a committee which shall superintendent
the financial and economical concerns of the above named
paper-
                                     The said committee to have and exercise
the full right- to examine into all the financial concerns
of the paper- to see that the account of the concern are
honestly and accurately kept- and to advise with me
on all matters connected with the financial economy
of the establishment.
                                         A compliance with the above
request will greatly oblige me and perhaps restore
confidence where there may now appear to be
distrust.
                                  With sincere Love and respect,
                                                       I am gratefully yours
                                                                      Frederick Douglass

(Page 2)

[Text aligned vertically across center of Page 2]

Isaac Post Esq
Druggest
Rochester
N.Y.

Tags

Abolitionism

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Douglass, Frederick, “Douglass, Frederick. Letter to Isaac Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 21, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/3049.

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