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Of all the cruel practices of slavery, Douglass considers the fate of his grandmother most unacceptable.
Lincoln, seeing this masterly orator of mixed-race ancestry, would most likely first have been reminded of his exceptional friend, Douglass.
Later in his career, Douglass became a vocal opponent of minstrel humor, performed either by blacks or whites.
When Douglass makes his first escape attempt, he plans a route on the Chesapeake Bay.
Her father, Robert Douglass, is a lawyer from Greenwich, Connecticut, and a former right-hand man to Nelson Rockefeller.
Addressing the three-fifths compromise, Douglass conceded, only for the purpose of argument, that “all other persons” refers to slaves.
Within one year, Douglass earns the wages of the most experienced calkers, at times bringing in nine dollars per week.
In 1838, while a ship caulker's apprentice, Douglass acquired free seaman papers and escaped to New York City.
Douglass said Celaya was a known meth user, and had a string of previous arrests.
There were Frederick Douglass in Baltimore, P.S. 91 in Brooklyn, McDonough 35 in New Orleans, and so very many others.
One outfit was named Lady Montagu Douglass Scott after the former Duchess of Gloucester.
That woman, an island hero, Betto Douglas, may have been a relative of the famous American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass.
I would have been appeased by a simple line indicating Lincoln had met with Douglass at some point.
But even a rhetorical commitment to sending back the money was influential, not least in the political development of Frederick Douglass, as we shall see.
Under state law, charter schools must have at least 65 students enrolled, but Douglass Academy was well below that.
Through his listening to secular storytelling, religious preaching, slave songs, and spirituals, Douglass became educated in the oral tradition of slave culture.
Captain Auld considers Douglass to have been spoiled by life in the city.
His readings of Poe and Douglass are more hermetically isolated.
The eloquent Frederick Douglass became an important abolitionist leader after escaping from slavery.
The Hartland Point Lighthouse was built in 1874 under the direction of Sir James Douglass.
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As the possessor of a million, cowpunching lost its charms for Douglass, who resigned his connection with the vn interests.
Mr. Chesnutt has admirably summed up the personal characteristics of the oratory of Douglass.
Douglass had some saddlery matters to attend to and Grace's letter to answer.
Gavin Douglass of the Vergilian measure was bishop here, and Mrs. Oliphant has written stories round about.
Dr. Silliman apprises me that Professor Douglass expects my geological report as part of his work.
Douglass MacArthur Yetsko put the burp gun back together again, tried the action, and laid it aside with a sigh.
But his sojourn in England was more than a joy to Mr. Douglass.
Now his friends were fleeing the country, Sanborn, Douglass, and Howe.
At the opposite end of the political spectrum were those like Frederick Douglass who held that racial integration and assimilation were viable goals.
His other autobiographical works are MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM and LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, published in 1855 and 1881 respectively.
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