Re-enactor recreates Frederick Douglass’s 1870 speech at Historic Lehigh County Courthouse | PHOTOS

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Back in Time: Renowned Frederick Douglass reenactor wows crowd at historic courthouse in Allentown

Darius Wallace’s portrayal of Douglass earned a long standing ovation in the Lehigh County courtroom where the famed ...
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Frederick Douglass’ iconic speech on slavery and the Declaration of Independence returns to Boston Common

Readers huddled on the Boston Common Tuesday for the 15th year in a row to recite Frederick Douglass’ “What to the American slave is your Fourth of July?”, a tradition that asks onlookers to consider ...
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Frederick Douglass: The visionary who redefined freedom and Black liberation

Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans, ...
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MSU celebrates National Frederick Douglas Day, transcribing thousands of his writings for the first time

LANSING, Mich. — Wednesday is National Frederick Douglass Day, celebrating a former slave who became a well known abolitionist, activist, author and speaker. At Michigan State University, they’re ...
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Down About the Election? There Is a Speech I Want You to Read.

Most Americans who know of Frederick Douglass know that he lived to see the destruction of chattel slavery and the liberation of Black Americans from the despotism of human bondage. Less well known is ...