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J[ames] W. Duffin to Frederick Douglass, March 11, 1856

ANOTHER IMPOSTER.

FRIEND DOUGLASS:—Permit me, through the columns of your valuable journal, to caution the public against a colored woman calling herself Cecelia Barker. She travels with a babe in her arms, and a daughter along with her as an assistant. She represents that her husband is a fugitive from Slavery, and is about to be taken back again to the South, unless she can raise a certain sum to redeem him, which statement is entirely false. Said Barker has never been a slave, and money given to his wife will be squandered in reveling and drunkenness.

J. W. DUFFIN

GENEVA, March 11th, 1856.

Creator

Duffin, James W.

Date

March 11, 1856

Description

J[ames] W. Duffin to Frederick Douglass. PLSr: Frederick DouglassP, 21 March 1856. Warns of false claims made by a woman purporting to raise money to free her husband, a fugitive slave.

Publisher

This document was calendared in the published volume and has not been published in full before.

Collection

Frederick Douglass' Paper, March 21, 1856

Type

Letters

Publication Status

Unpublished