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Frederick Douglass, formerly an escaped slave, memoirist, elected president of the convention. [19] The Edmonson sisters, Mary and Emily, 15 and 17, formerly escaped slaves aboard The Pearl, William Chaplin's failed project. They sang "I hear the voice of Lovejoy on Alton's bloody plain" at the opening. [20] [19]
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.
Frederick Douglass, 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 ...
It is the first of Douglass's three autobiographies, the others being My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881, revised 1892). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period.
Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist, social reformer, orator, writer and statesman who successfully escaped slavery in 1838. He became a powerful and prominent figure in the ...
Members of the convention included Frederick Douglass, a well known equal rights activist, as the president, John Jones as the vice president, and William H. Day as the secretary. [1] Allen Jones (Ohio), Thomas Johnson (Michigan), and Abner Hunt Francis (New York) were added as vice presidents. William H. Burnham and Justin Holland (both from ...
Douglass' speech has messages still relevant today, said Cedric Arno, political action chair and former president of the NAACP Worcester. Arno began the readings in 2009 and said the event has ...
“Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who has done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice." Twitter users wonder if President Trump knows who Frederick Douglass ...