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Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, so he never knew the exact date of his birth, only that it occurred sometime in ...
ArtsConnect hosts a community reading of Frederick Douglass' "The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro" speech.
Frederick Douglass’ relationship with audiences illustrates ‘outsized impact’ of public speaking in politics, scholar says Peer-Reviewed Publication ...
A bust of the famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber. It is the first bust to be added there in more than 125 years.
In mid-19th-century America, when public speaking was a form of mass entertainment, Frederick Douglass was a rock star.. Standing-room-only crowds greeted him in the US and in Europe. People wept ...
His narrative, and his subsequent 19-month lecture tour of the United Kingdom, made Douglass one of the most famous men in the English-speaking world, and for many, the face of the abolition movement.
Because of Frederick Douglass, whose legacy forever links Cork and Rochester. Earlier that day, March 2, ... where he engaged in a speaking tour on the abolition of slavery.
Kevin Douglass Greene, great-great grandson of abolitionist, author and social reformer Frederick Douglass, speaking at School of the Future on Thursday, Feb. 15. (Patriciah Hawkins) Neferteri ...
Fearing human traffickers, Douglass, now married to Anna Murray, fled again to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he gained a reputation as an orator speaking out against slavery with the ...
Discussion | Becoming Frederick Douglass. 10/3/2022 | 43m 43s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Scholars, professors and historians discuss the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass.
It was on July 5, 1852, that Frederick Douglass addressed the Ladies’ Antislavery Society in Rochester, N.Y., and delivered what is often described as the greatest abolitionist speech in US history.