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In this history, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman are the revered founders of a Black state created in the Deep South. Douglass is a major character in the novel How Few Remain (1997) by Harry Turtledove, depicted in an alternate history in which the Confederacy won the Civil War and Douglass must continue his anti-slavery campaign into ...
Frederick Douglass, c.1879. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass's third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglass gave more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies (which would ...
Douglass Park (formerly Douglas Park) is a part of the Chicago Park District on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. Established in 1869 and initially named South Park, [ 1 ] its 173 acres (0.70 km 2 ) are in the North Lawndale community area with an official address of 1401 S. Sacramento Drive.
June 1 – Isabella Baumfree, a former slave, changes her name to Sojourner Truth and begins to preach for the abolition of slavery. [citation needed] August – Henry Highland Garnet delivers his famous speech Call to Rebellion. [citation needed] 1845. Publication of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by ...
Douglass forced the nation to come face to face with the “immeasurable distance” that separated free whites and enslaved Black people 76 years after the country’s independence, nearly 11 ...
It is the first of Douglass's three autobiographies, the others being My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881, revised 1892). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period.
A different bust of Douglass, on loan from the Museum of African American History of Boston and Nantucket, was on display in the chamber prior to its $22 million-plus renovation, which was ...
PragerU video draws backlash for depicting Frederick Douglass in an animation calling slavery a compromise between the Founding Fathers and the Southern colonies for the benefit of the U.S.