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Unpublished
