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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Yet both authors’ concentration on Douglass the constitutional thinker sometimes narrows the man.
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
In four major speeches Douglass extolled the Mayflower, joining antislavery figures who looked back to the Plymouth settlers—who established government by consent and initially did not legalize slavery—as an ur-source of abolitionism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
It was a sight and a scar that’ll be with me the rest of my life, right ’long with that trouble twixt me and Mr. Frederick Douglass.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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