The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series Three: Correspondence, Volume 3: 1866-1880

The selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer dating from the immediate post–Civil War years

This third volume of Frederick Douglass’s Correspondence Series exhibits Douglass at the peak of his political influence. It chronicles his struggle to persuade the nation to fulfill its promises to the former slaves and all African Americans in the tempestuous years of Reconstruction.

Douglass’s career changed dramatically with the end of the Civil War and the long-...