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Title: John Brown
An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College

Author: Frederick Douglass

Release Date: March 31, 2010 [EBook #31839]

Language: English

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JOHN BROWN.

AN ADDRESS

BY

FREDERICK DOUGLASS,

AT THE

FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY

OF

STORER COLLEGE,

HARPER'S FERRY, WEST VIRGINIA, MAY 30, 1881.

DOVER, N. H.:

MORNING STAR JOB PRINTING HOUSE.

1881.

* * * * *

PRESENTED
BY THE AUTHOR TO STORER COLLEGE,
THE PROCEEDS TO GO TO THE ENDOWMENT OF A
JOHN BROWN PROFESSORSHIP.

* * * * *

INTRODUCTION.

In substance, this address, now for the first time published, was
prepared several years ago, and has been delivered in many parts of
the North. Its publication now in pamphlet form is due to its delivery
at Harper's Ferry, W. Va., on Decoration day, 1881, and to the fact
that the proceeds from the sale of it are to be used toward the
endowment of a John Brown Professorship in Storer College, Harper's
Ferry--an institution mainly devoted to the education of colored
youth.

That such an address could be delivered at such a place, at such a
time, is strikingly significant, and illustrates the rapid, vast and
wonderful changes through which the American people have been passing
since 1859. Twenty years ago Frederick Douglass and others were mobbed
in the city of Boston, and driven from Tremont Temple for uttering
sentiments concerning John Brow