"It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of freedom. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place."
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"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man."
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A quotation from Frederick Douglass
The American people have this lesson to learn: That where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1886-04-16), “Strong to Suffer, and Yet Strong to Strive,” Israel Bethel Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.
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A quotation from Frederick Douglass
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1857-08-04) on West India Emancipation, Ontario County Agricultural Society fairgrounds, Canandaigua, New York
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A quotation from Frederick Douglass
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Appendix (1845)
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Frederick Douglass: a voice that shattered chains and inspired generations. 📖🗣️
Today in Labor History October 1, 1851: 10,000 New Yorkers busted up a police station in Syracuse to free William "Jerry" Henry, a craftsman who was fleeing slavery in the south. He had been arrested by a US Marshall during the anti-slavery Liberty Party's state convention. Citizens of the city stormed the sheriff's office, freed Henry and helped him escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad. There were a lot of abolitionists living in New York, especially in Syracuse, including Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, and a large number of abolitionist Quakers and Unitarians. Consequently, Syracuse became known as the great central depot on the Underground Railroad. Jerry Rescue Day was celebrated every October 1 in Syracuse, until the start of the Civil War. The annual event included speeches, poetry, music, and organizing against slavery. They also collected funds to keep the Underground Railroad running in central New York.
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September is International Underground Railroad Month because it was the month that Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery. To learn more #BlackHistory, follow this Surf feed.
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Today in Labor History September 3, 1838: Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland to freedom in the north, where he became a leader of the abolitionist movement. During his lifetime, he wrote 3 autobiographies and became a best-selling author. He also fought for women’s suffrage and was the first black man nominated to run for vice president. Douglass opposed colonialism and segregated schools. He was the most photographed American of the 19th century, never smiling once for the camera so as to not play into the racist myth of the happy slave.
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Frederick Douglass (circa 1818-1895) was an abolitionist orator, minister, writer, editor, reformer, and statesman, who had been born a slave in Maryland, escaped to New York at around the age of 20, and became a talented orator and writer. #History #FrederickDouglass #Abolitionism #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24927-en/
"What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July? #History #Abolitionism #FrederickDouglass #Slavery #UnitedStates #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2780-en/
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
-- Frederick Douglass (West India Emancipation (1857))
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Abolitionist author, orator and statesman Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is well-known for his speeches, autobiography, and other works addressing the issue of slavery in the United States in the 19th century, but, in 1853, he wrote his only work of fiction – the novella The Heroic Slave – based on the Creole Mutiny/Creole Rebellion of 1841 and its leader, Madison Washington. #History #CreoleMutiny #Abolitionism #FrederickDouglass #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2775-en/
I do love Trench One's mural of anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass on Gilmore Place, commemorating his time in #Edinburgh
https://blog.historicenvironment.scot/2020/10/frederick-douglass/
I like the use of whites, greys & blacks to evoke the Victorian era photographs of Douglass
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Фредерік Дуґлас
It is easier to build ...
Frederick Douglass
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
-- Frederick Douglass (West India Emancipation (1857))
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Useless quote for 30 July:
"Trust is the foundation of society. Where there is no truth, there can be no trust, and where there is no trust, there can be no society."
~ Frederick Douglass in "Composite Nation" (1867)
Link to source:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss11879.22017/?st=slideshow#slide-1
It's not about what #DavidSuzuki or #GretaThunberg owes the #Climate movement. It's what WE owe THEM, this planet & everything on it. I get that we're largely nice people that care about more than ourselves & would prefer to 'nice' our way out of this but POWER just doesn't work that way. Period #Climate #ClimateChange #FrederickDouglass
James Earl Jones delivers Frederick Douglass’ legendary takedown of American hypocrisy:
“What to the slave is the 4th of July?” A nation built on slavery dared to preach freedom. Required watching. Required reckoning. #FourthOfJuly #FrederickDouglass #BlackHistory
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