"Frederick Douglass" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the field. The Free Democracy met in convention on August 7, and the Liberty party, assembling at Utica on September 12, nominated Frederick Douglass of Monroe, then a young coloured man of thirty-eight, for secretary of state, and Lewis Tappan of New York for comptroller. Douglass' life had been full of romance. Neither his white father nor coloured mother appears to have had any idea of the prodigy they brought ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander |
