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2 days ago · Summary Transcript. [REBROADCAST FROM February 24, 2021] In the fourth installment of our February “Full Bio” series, we look at Frederick Douglass’s family and friendships. Historian David W. Blight talks about Douglass’s first wife, Anna, their five children (four of whom lived to adulthood), and his long and turbulent friendship with ...
Jun 26, 2024 · Frederick, Jr. worked with his father recruiting and held the rank of sergeant in the 25th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment. Even after the Civil War, Frederick Douglass found time to visit the Bay State, often being invited to abolitionist reunions and anniversary celebrations.
Jun 17, 2024 · Walking through the city’s Highland Park, Julien was drawn to an eight-foot bronze statue of Frederick Douglass, the visionary African American abolitionist who liberated himself from slavery in 1838. It was created by Stanley W. Edwards and unveiled in 1899, four years after Douglass’s death.
Jun 26, 2024 · During an Independence Day celebration in Rochester, New York on July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivers what would become his most celebrated speech, “What to the slave is the Fourth of...
Jun 14, 2024 · Frederick Douglass was introduced to the idea of universal human rights after traveling to Ireland and meeting with Irish nationalist leaders.
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1 day ago · Engraving by J.C. Buttre. On July 5, 1852, abolitionist, writer, and orator Frederick Douglass, who spent his hard early years in slavery before his escape, delivered a speech before the Rochester ...
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Jun 20, 2024 · The Race Problem, Great Speech of Frederick Douglass, Delivered Before the Bethel Literary and Historical Association, in the Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, Washington, D.C. October 21, 1890.
