A Red Record

It opens with a letter of endorsement from Frederick Douglass beginning 'Dear Miss Wells: Let me give you thanks for your faithful paper on the lynch abomination now generally practiced against colored people in the South,' signed from his home, Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D.C. Wells compiled her statistics chiefly from mainstream white daily newspapers rather than the Black press, a methodological choice she states explicitly in the text as a way to preempt charges of bias