Douglass

[ duhg-luhs ]

noun

1. Frederick, 1817–95, African American activist, abolitionist, author, and orator, born into slavery.
2. a male given name.

Example Sentences

Of the recommendations, Douglass said mental health resources and use-of-force policies should be the county’s top priorities.

From Washington Post

Take a walk around historic downtown Douglass, which even has a park honoring the Dunes Resort founders who turned the area into an LGBTQ destination.

From Washington Blade

In Douglass and Washington Highlands, fewer than 300 people have.

From Washington Post

Lincoln shared with Douglass, Oakes emphasizes, an abiding belief in the abolition movement’s core principle of fundamental human equality.

From Washington Post

Douglass and Lincoln both hated slavery, but “they hated it in different ways,” as Oakes has cogently put it.

From Washington Post

The first—and it turns out, only—stop was Douglass Academy, a new charter school in downtown Wilmington.

From The Daily Beast

Under state law, charter schools must have at least 65 students enrolled, but Douglass Academy was well below that.

From The Daily Beast

In the meantime, Douglass had pulled into a lower parking lot to start an 11 p.m.-to-7 a.m. shift.

From The Daily Beast

Douglass was Medevaced to a hospital in Scranton, where he was stabilized.

From The Daily Beast

That woman, an island hero, Betto Douglas, may have been a relative of the famous American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass.

From The Daily Beast

Robert Douglass, Jr., for many years, has kept a study and gallery of painting and daguerreotype in the city of Philadelphia.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Douglass is highly respected as a citizen and gentleman in Rochester.

From Project Gutenberg

You know Frederick Douglass acted upon some such principle when his master attempted to whip him.

From Project Gutenberg

Captain Douglass thought, from the curve of the earth, that they could not be less than eighteen hundred feet in height.

From Project Gutenberg

Captain Douglass made observations for the latitude of the place, and determined it to be in north latitude 46 52 2.

From Project Gutenberg