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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 14, 1818 [a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
Frederick Douglass was one of the black activists who joined the American Anti-Slavery Society shortly after the internal schism and appointment of Garrison as Society President. Douglass was active within the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society between 1841 and 1842. He engaged with the American Anti-Slavery Society lecture circuit beginning 1843.
In 2014, a two-day symposium called "Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave and the American Revolutionary Tradition" took place at Purdue University in Indiana where many historians and literary critics gathered to discuss their thoughts on Douglass's fictitious slave narrative, The Heroic Slave. Ideas surrounding African American fiction, the ...
WORCESTER ― The words of abolitionist Frederick Douglass' famed 1852 address, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" rung out through Worcester Common on Thursday afternoon, read by dozens ...
On a hot night in August 1841, fugitive slave Frederick Douglass stood before a thousand white people inside a rickety wooden building in Nantucket, Mass. A handful of Black people appeared in the ...
Douglass passed in 1895, but his life and work played a significant role in shaping the discourse on slavery, freedom and civil rights in the United States. Honor his legacy with 45 Frederick ...
Of the 4000 weekly subscribers, about 3000 were blacks. Garrison denounced the United States Constitution as hopelessly pro slavery, and discouraged political activism as a result. Frederick Douglass at first followed Garrison, but broke with him in 1851, and promoted political action among free blacks in the North. [20]
Originally known as the New Era, the pioneering abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass renamed it in 1870 when he became the newspaper's publisher and editor. [ 2 ] The first issue under Douglas was published on January 13, 1870, and was largely devoted to coverage of the Colored National Labor Union , which had convened its inaugural ...