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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 14, 1818 [a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
Rev. Francis Hawley, pastor of the Free Congregational Church, the meeting's first venue. Described locally as "one of many who has fallen into Gerrit Smithism". Chosen as vice president of the convention. [5]: 19 Mrs. Howett made on the first afternoon a speech against the anti-abolitionists of New York City. [7]
Frederick Douglass, from the 1855 frontispiece. My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass and is mainly an expansion of his first, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. The book ...
The 1888 Republican National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held at the Auditorium Building in Chicago, Illinois, on June 19–25, 1888.It resulted in the nomination of former Senator Benjamin Harrison of Indiana for president and Levi P. Morton of New York, a former Representative and Minister to France, for vice president.
Former President George W. Bush speaks during a 9/11 commemoration at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. ... In the sacrifice of the first responders, in the mutual aid of ...
Bush and outgoing Vice President Al Gore's election had become a legally fraught battle over a recount in Florida -- chock full of hanging chads and a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court.
Frederick Douglass, c.1879. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass's third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglass gave more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies (which would ...