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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Douglass, of course, lived in the 19th century and has long been revered as an American icon, and Jackson had been dead 16 years before the Civil War even started.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
And working on a historical drama, we’ve had people Google things, and in fact they Googled something about Frederick Douglass being at this very important American event.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Nearby, is a large poster, with text penned by famed slavery abolitionist Frederick Douglass, that was carried in a 1863 parade during the Civil War that calls "Men of Color, To Arms! To Arms!"
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
It restores Douglass to a living continuum of dissent rather than isolating him as an exceptional voice, and it underscores how fully the Fourth of July once accommodated, even invited, fierce moral criticism from within.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Ignorance of the ABCs, Frederick Douglass would write after gaining his freedom, was part of “the white man’s power to enslave the black man.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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