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James E. Taylor.
The Santo Domingo Commission.
New York: Frank Leslie, 1871.
In 1825 the American Colonization Society resettled some African Americans
near Samana, in the Dominican Republic. Frederick Douglass spoke to nearly
200 of their descendants on January 28, 1871, using a pulpit from a nearby
Catholic church.
Image no. 2004-292-10
