Frederick Douglass
American social reformer, orator, writer, abolitionist, former slave and statesman
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Frederick Douglass was an 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, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.
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New Frederick Douglass statue erected after vandalism with hopes for a better future for allAt the site where escaped enslaved people once boarded ships to make their way to Canada and freedom, the present met the past on Thursday.USATODAY.com - Published | |
In 2018, they vandalized a Frederick Douglass statue. Now they'll help install a new one.Two men who destroyed a Frederick Douglass statue in 2018 plan to help erect a statue in Rochester, New York, where another was recently vandalized.USATODAY.com - Published | |
The Backstory: There is more to the Frederick Douglass story. Her name is Anna Murray Douglass.Anna Murray Douglass has been largely overlooked by history, but she made her husband's achievements possible. Journalists can lift up such stories.USATODAY.com - Published | |
Frederick Douglass escaped slavery and became a famed abolitionist. His first wife made that possibleFrederick Douglass was able to escape slavery and pursue the work of abolition thanks to the help of his first wife, Anna Murray Douglass.USATODAY.com - Published | |
Frederick Douglass statue in New York vandalized on anniversary weekend of 'What to the Slave is the Fourth of July' speechOn the same weekend in which Frederick Douglass years ago delivered one of his most historic speeches, a statue of Douglass was toppled from its base.USATODAY.com - Published | |
Billy Graham, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass: Who Trump wants in the 'National Garden of American Heroes'Trump's order says the "National Garden of American Heroism," should feature Harriet Tubman, Billy Graham and Frederick Douglass among others.USATODAY.com - Published | |
July Fourth: Frederick Douglass found hope in our Declaration of Independence. So can we.These are trouble times and the American dream may still be a dream deferred. But the great promise of our founding documents is worth chasing after.USATODAY.com - Published | |
Could DC become the 51st state? Here's why is might not happenThe House bill, aptly named "H.R. 51," would allow for the admission of a new state, called Washington, Douglass Commonwealth after Fredrick Douglass.USATODAY.com - Published | |
William McFeely, Pulitzer-Winning Historian, Dies as 89The author of acclaimed biographies of Ulysses S. Grant and Frederick Douglass, he also helped establish Yale’s black studies department.NYTimes.com - Published |
