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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.
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The first was Stanley Harrold, a historian at South Carolina State University, who detailed the romanticism surrounding Douglass's version of Madison Washington's self-led slave revolt. The second article titled "Insurrection as Righteous Rebellion in The Heroic Slave and Beyond" by L. Diane Barnes of Youngstown State University differentiates ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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.