[Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington]@TWC D-Link bookUp From Slavery: An Autobiography CHAPTER XVI 31/35
The correspondence has continued, and we now feel that in the Duchess of Sutherland we have one of our warmest friends. After three months in Europe we sailed from Southampton in the steamship St.Louis.On this steamer there was a fine library that had been presented to the ship by the citizens of St.Louis, Mo.
In this library I found a life of Frederick Douglass, which I began reading.
I became especially interested in Mr.Douglass's description of the way he was treated on shipboard during his first or second visit to England.
In this description he told how he was not permitted to enter the cabin, but had to confine himself to the deck of the ship.
A few minutes after I had finished reading this description I was waited on by a committee of ladies and gentlemen with the request that I deliver an address at a concert which was to begin the following evening.
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