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In doing so, Douglass went on to become a great writer, orator, publisher, civil rights leader and government official. ... Douglass will forever be remembered forhis passionate work to ensure that America lived up to the idealsupon which it was founded, and guaranteed freedom and equality fo...
Frederick Douglass Speech- What to the slave is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass was the most famous African-American leader of the 1800s. In 1852, the prominent citizens of Rochester, USA, asked him to speak at their Fourth of July festivities. Here’s what he said. “Fellow citize...
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. —Frederick Douglass 176 I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right...
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery around 1818. As a youth, he was sent to live in Baltimore, where he worked in the shipyards and began to learn to read. At the age of 20 he escaped slavery. Answer and Explanation: Frederick Douglass escaped to New York after leaving Maryland. Wit...
As the great abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass once observed, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.” What is now at risk in the climate debate is nothing less than our ability to communicate with one another according to a protocol that binds all...
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Ida B. Wells was born at the dawn of emancipation. She worked together with the likes of Frederick Douglass, stood up for the dignity of everyday people of color by refusing to give up her railroad seat decades before Rosa parks did the same on a Montgomery bus, marched side-by side in...
Nemours was the estate of Alfred I, duPont. One year after the sudden death of his second wife, Alicia, Alfred married Jessie Dew Ball in a quiet ceremony. Jessie, 20 years his junior, had been a teenager when Alfred had first become acquainted with the Ball family more than two decades...