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Vor 5 Tagen · May 30, 2024. Isaac Julien ’s Lessons of the Hour is a remarkable video installation based on the life and career of the visionary African American abolitionist, statesman, and formerly enslaved person Frederick Douglass.
Vor 5 Tagen · Frederick Douglass spent his life fighting for justice and equality. Born into slavery in 1818, he escaped as a young man and became a leading voice in the abolitionist movement. People everywhere still find inspiration today in his tireless struggle, brilliant words, and inclusive vision of humanity. Douglass's legacy is preserved at Cedar ...
Vor 3 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.
Vor 5 Tagen · Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, and PW cartoonist Ollie Harrington featured at Yale exhibition – People's World. May 29, 2024 10:13 AM CDT By Special to People’s World. Share. Email.
Vor 5 Tagen · Douglass was a charismatic, brilliant public speaker and most of all could speak personally about the brutality and reality of American slavery. Many of his audiences would not have seen a fugitive slave before and he broke the stereotype of an ignorant, simple-minded black.
Vor 4 Tagen · Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in February 1818, was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, renowned for his oratorical and incisive antislavery writings.
Vor 4 Tagen · In this 1863 editorial, Frederick Douglass calls all able-bodied African Americans to take up arms in defense of the Union. He encourages them to travel to Boston in order to join one of the first regiments of black soldiers forming there.
