Douglass
Americannoun
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Frederick, 1817–95, African American activist, abolitionist, author, and orator, born into slavery.
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a male given name.
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Here was Douglass as constitutional interpreter and cultural historian.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Douglass compared government and the Constitution to “a ship and a compass”: the latter could point correctly while the former steered wrongly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Douglass was separating himself from the abolitionist circle that had launched his career and putting himself in a remarkable middle position.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Douglass argued that a person “held to service or labor” meant someone contractually bound to service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Douglass came north to escape and find work in the shipyards; a big fellow in a sailor's suit who, like me, had taken another name.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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