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Hace 1 día · Frederick Douglass, African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author who is famous for his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. He became the first Black U.S. marshal and was the most photographed American man of the 19th century.
Hace 2 días · Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave, a leader of the anti-slavery movement in the North, editor of the abolitionist newspaper The North Star and, after the Civil War, a diplomat for the U.S. government. This excerpt is from an address on West India Emancipation, delivered August 4, 1857. Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reforms.
18 de may. de 2024 · His 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, detailed his life as a slave and is still read today. Learn about Frederick Douglass, a key figure in the Civil War....
Hace 2 días · These two images evoke Frederick Douglass’s use of the photographic image to “erase the astonishingly large storehouse of racist stereotypes that had been accumulated in the American archive of anti-Black imagery,” as Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote in his 2015 essay titled “Fredrick Douglass’s Camera Obscura: Representing the Anti-Slave ...
Hace 3 días · President Obama’s recent visit to Ireland inspired a new wave of interest in the international experiences of formerly enslaved African American Frederick Douglass. He travelled to Britain in 1845 and spent the first few months of his trip gaining support from Irish audiences in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Belfast, to name a few of ...
14 de may. de 2024 · His lifetime triumphs were many: abolitionist, women's rights activist, author, owner-editor of antislavery newspapers, fluent speaker of many languages, Minister to Haiti, and most respected African American orator of the 1800s.
17 de may. de 2024 · After escaping from slavery in 1838, Frederick Douglass became one of the key voices in the early American civil rights movement. An outspoken abolitionist with a notable gift for writing and public speaking, his words on social reform spread across the world and brought him great attention: Douglass was the most photographed man of his day.
