Douglass gave a moving speech about the evils of slavery. The society hired him to travel around the north and speak at antislavery meetings. He soon became the nation¡¯s leading black opponent of slavery. 道格拉斯就奴隶制的罪恶作了一次感人的演讲。该协会聘请他周游北方,并在反奴隶制会议上...
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Frederick Douglass- United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895) Douglass Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc. ...
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...
Garrison was likewise impressed with Douglass and wrote of him in the liberator. Several days later, Douglass delivered his first speech at the Massachusetts anti-slavery society’s annual convention in Nantucket. Then 23 years old, Douglass conquered his nervousness and gave an eloquent speech ...
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS, speech, Oct. 1883 I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. FREDERICK DOUGLASS,Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass ...
Douglass' last speech was to the National Council of Women in 1895; he died of a heart attack suffered the evening of the speech. Selected Frederick Douglass Quotations [Masthead of his newspaper,North Star, founded 1847] "Right is of no sex - Truth is of no color - God is the Father...
After the war, Douglass served as a government official for the District of Columbia and was U.S. consul-general to Haiti from 1889 to 1891. He presented a utopian vision for immigration and a multi-racial America in his 1867 speech, Composite Nation. ...
Douglass was unexpectedly asked to give a speech to describe his experiences as a slave. After that speech, the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society asked Douglass to travel to cities throughout the North. He continued to tell about his cruel and sad life as a slave. Many who heard his story...