... were presidential appointments) such as Marshall of District of Columbia, Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, and finally as Minister and Consul-General to the Republic of Haiti. As a contemporary of Douglass, Chesnutt presents the reader with a portrait of the abolitionist based mainly on Douglass" three autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), and The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892) and other available materials of his day. Other than the three autobiographies, Chesnutt had only a few ... sources whi...

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