The proposed annexation of Santo Domingo was an attempted treaty during the later Reconstruction era, with precedents under earlier administrations, but re-initiated by United States President Ulysses
Santo Domingo City Watercolor by James E. Taylor 1871
President Ulysses S. Grant
A Dominican tobacco plantation
Senator Charles Sumner
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century
Proposed United States annexation of Santo Domingo
…vindicate the failed treaty annexation, Grant sent a committee, authorized by the United States Congress and including African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, that investigated and produced a report favorable to annexation of the Dominican Republic into the United States. However, the annexation treaty…
Douglass, c. 1879
Anna Murray Douglass, Douglass's wife for 44 years, portrait c. 1860
Douglass, c. 1840s, in his 20s
The home and meetinghouse of the Johnsons, where Douglass and his wife lived in New Bedford, Massachusetts