. The Negro in American history [microform] : men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent. osits of thefreedmen of the South. He purchased a tract of land near Anacostia, in the Districtof Columbia, which he made his home, called Cedar Hill. Avery remarkable coincidence is that this place belonged to oneof the aristocracy in slavery days who in his will stipulatedthat no Negio, mulatto nor Irishman should ever become ownerof a foot of his possessions. In this mansion Mr. Douglass spentthe last twenty years of his life, surrounded by his books, letters,and other so
. The Negro in American history [microform] : men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent. osits of thefreedmen of the South. He purchased a tract of land near Anacostia, in the Districtof Columbia, which he made his home, called Cedar Hill. Avery remarkable coincidence is that this place belonged to oneof the aristocracy in slavery days who in his will stipulatedthat no Negio, mulatto nor Irishman should ever become ownerof a foot of his possessions. In this mansion Mr. Douglass spentthe last twenty years of his life, surrounded by his books, letters,and other souvenirs of his busy life and travels. His home was 5 The New York Independent edited at the time by Theodore Tilton. isauthority for the statement that Mr. Douglass by his silence until afterthe confirmation of Minister Ebenezer D. Bassett, prevented his ownnomination for the same post. The editor quotes from a private letter asfollows: It is quite true that I never sought this or any other office;but is equally true that I have never declined it, and it is also true that Iwould have accepted, had it been Doiiolai^s .Statuf. HoelusttT. X. Y. PUBliC LiiiitAHY \ FREDERICK DOUGLASS 153 always open and few there were interested in the cause of theColored American who visited the National Capital withoutvisiting the Sage of Anacostia at Cedar Hill, Among the honors bestowed on him was the U. S. Marshalshipby President Hayes in 1877, the Recorder of Deeds by PresidentGarfield in 1881, and the U. S. Ministership to Haiti in 1889,by President Harrison. In 1893 he was Haitian Commissionerat tbe Worlds Exposition at Cliicago, and for several yearsone of the trustees of Howard University. He died February20, 1895, at his home after having attended a Womans SuffrageConvention in session. The intelligence of his death occasioned sadness and sorrowthroughout the land, memorials were held in his honor and theexpression was unanimous that one of the greatast men of thecenturj^ had p
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