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Vor einem Tag · May 26, 2024. Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, emerged from the shackles of slavery to become one of the most influential African American leaders of the 19th century. His unwavering dedication to the abolitionist cause and his remarkable eloquence as an orator and writer left an indelible mark on American history.
Vor 3 Tagen · Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery to New York City in 1838, later settling in New Bedford, Massachusetts. At an 1841 antislavery convention, he was asked to recount his experience as an enslaved person. He so moved his audience that he became an agent for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. His 1845 autobiography cemented his ...
- Noelle Trent
13. Mai 2024 · "On July 5th, 1852 Frederick Douglass spoke at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York on the significance of America’s Independence Day. Ossie Davis reads this speech, compiled by Phil Foner, which demonstrates Douglass’ incomparable skill in oration and commands respect for the legendary thinker and activist."
Vor 4 Tagen · Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave, a leader of the anti-slavery movement in the North, editor of the abolitionist newspaper The North Star and, after the Civil War, a diplomat for the U.S. government. This excerpt is from an address on West India Emancipation, delivered August 4, 1857.
18. Mai 2024 · To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme, would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, then, fellow-citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's point of view ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Notable examples of white prefaces to black texts (only a small minority of nineteenth-century slave narratives carry a preface by a person of African descent) are William Lloyd Garrison’s in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Lydia Maria Child’s in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Vor 6 Tagen · Part 1: Humble Beginnings. One of the most important Black Americans in the history of the country was Frederick Douglass. From his beginnings as a child slave, Douglass would become a great public speaker, a leader of the abolitionist movement, and an advisor to President Abraham Lincoln.
