Word: douglass
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...Abolitionist Negro Frederick Douglass...
...Welcome Pressure. Like every revolution, the Negro revolution is formless. It is, as ex-Slave Douglass said it must be, an oceanic tide of many waters. The voices of hatred are in the minority-so far. But they often drown out softer, equally determined and far more effective Negro voices...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, by Frederick Douglass. In an autobiography he published in 1845 (reissued now in paperback), the greatest American Negro of the last century recalls his life as a slave...
Stalwart Republican. Douglass ended his youthful autobiography just when he was becoming famous. He joined the fiery William Lloyd Garrison's band of abolitionists. A powerfully built man with a great shock of hair and a sonorous voice, he was the best orator of the lot. When the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, enabling slaveowners to recover their runaways, Douglass thundered: "The only way to make the law a dead letter is to make half a dozen or more dead kidnapers." His lecture tour of Britain was cred ited with helping to keep Britain from recognizing the Confederacy during...
...militancy, Douglass was a practical man. When Garrison denounced the U.S. Constitution and urged the dissolution of the Union. Douglass broke with him, fearing that slaves would be helpless if left to the mercies of the South. He hoped to abolish slavery by the ballot and became a stalwart of the Republican Party, later helped to swing the Negro vote to a series of Republican Presidents. He was finally rewarded with the post of Minister to Haiti...