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    Frederick Douglass Documents, Newly Acquired By Yale, Reveal 'Hope For The Country'

    Dr. Walter O. Evans' collection is the largest known on the abolitionist and politician who was formerly enslaved. Yale University recently acquired Evans' collection and plans to make it public.
    by Milton Guevara Jul 14, 2020 2 minutes
    Yale curator Melissa Barton and Dr. Walter Evans look at a scrapbook, part of his collection of Frederick Douglass papers recently acquired by Yale University.

    For years, researchers interested in the life of Frederick Douglass have traveled to a retired surgeon's dining room table in Savannah, Ga., to pore over his private collection of newspaper clippings, manuscripts and letters. Dr. Walter O. Evans' collection is the largest known on the abolitionist and

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