harper and frederick douglass. all of these forms are so well attended, that if the brooklyn daily eagle, a white newspaper, noted in 1892 that, quote, no other group of people were fonder of literary pursuits, and african-americans.". ida herself was invited to speak on afro-american literature, to open the season at the concorde literary circle and the concorde baptist church, and drew the largest audience that ever attended a literary meeting in that city. is the newspaper of the washington beavers was also hypercritical of everything, either completely captivated the large and cultivated audience. she also, in this period, debates, goes into a debate, that a really wonderful figure, some of you may know, in brooklyn, she was born of a family in new york city, her father's business was ruined in the draft rights of 1863, you look at history, it's not a history of never having, it's things being taken away. thousands, hundreds of businesses, black business institutions were destroyed in that riot, at least one man was rinsed, lynn stone clarkson street and torched while hanging from a tree. lyons family moved to providence, rhode island, where th