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  2. Frederick Douglass - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Wikipedia

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    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass comprises eleven chapters that recount Douglass's life as a slave and his ambition to become a free man. It contains two introductions by well-known white abolitionists : a preface by William Lloyd Garrison and a letter by Wendell Phillips , both arguing for the veracity of the account and the ...

  4. American Anti-Slavery Society - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. The Speech That Launched Frederick Douglass’s Life as an ...

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    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 ...

  6. 1847 National Convention of Colored People and Their Friends

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    Later Douglass gave a speech requesting that blacks stop attending pro-slavery churches and stop supporting them. Garnet did not make any radical speeches in this convention although he was known for them. [4] James McCune Smith was also present and spoke on the importance of establishing a black press. [5]

  7. Frederick Douglass's 4th of July reading still resonates in ...

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    During the fight for abolition, the building was host to Douglass. In the 1830s, he was a member of the Worcester Anti-Slavery Society and visited the city often to speak at City Hall and ...

  8. Animated Frederick Douglass calls slavery a 'compromise' in ...

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    In the video, Douglass, an abolitionist who devoted his life to anti-slavery efforts, describes slavery as a compromise between the Founding Fathers and the Southern colonies for the benefit of ...

  9. Edward Lloyd (Governor of Maryland) - Wikipedia

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    The African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who had grown up as a slave on one of Lloyd's plantations, discussed Lloyd in his 1845 autobiography The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. The book describes the acts of cruelty committed by Lloyd's overseers, and dwells at length on Lloyd's own despotic treatment, including ...