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Douglass also wrote, "I loved all mankind, slaveholder not excepted, though I abhorred slavery more than ever. I saw the world in a new light ... I gathered scattered pages of the Bible from the filthy street gutters, and washed and dried them, that ... I might get a word or two of wisdom from them." | Douglass also wrote, "I loved all mankind, slaveholder not excepted, though I abhorred slavery more than ever. I saw the world in a new light ... I gathered scattered pages of the Bible from the filthy street gutters, and washed and dried them, that ... I might get a word or two of wisdom from them." | ||
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| + | * "A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box." (15 November 1867) <ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zFclDyk2LTEC&pg=PA57 Williamsport: Boomtown on the Susquehanna]</ref> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[Abolitionism]] | * [[Abolitionism]] | ||
* [[What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?]] | * [[What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?]] | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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Revision as of 22:42, November 23, 2021
| Frederick Douglass | |
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United States Minister Resident to Haiti
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| In office November 14, 1889 – July 30, 1891 | |
| Preceded by | John E. W. Thompson |
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| Succeeded by | John S. Durham |
| Born | c. February 1817 Cordova, Maryland |
| Died | February 20, 1895 (aged c. 78) Washington D.C. |
| Political party | Republican |
Frederick Douglass (c. February 1817 - February 20, 1895), born as Frederick Baily, was raised as a slave. He escaped to Massachusetts at age 20 and changed his name to Frederick Douglass in order to conceal himself from slave catchers. He was a member of the Republican Party.
He developed marvelous debating and oratory skills to expose the injustices of slavery by reading the book The Columbian Orator,[1] which he started to read around age 12. William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of the abolitionist Liberator Newspaper, hired him.
Douglass published a best-selling autobiography, but then felt he had to flee to England to avoid being caught by slave catchers. Reformer Daniel O'Connell formed a friendship with him there.
Upon his return to New York, he founded the "North Star" newspaper.
Frederick Douglass on religion
See also: Black Americans, history and religion
I was not more than thirteen years old, when in my loneliness and destitution I longed for some one to whom I could go, as to a father and protector. The preaching of a white Methodist minister, named Hanson, was the means of causing me to feel that in God I had such a friend. He thought that all men, great and small, bond and free, were sinners in the sight of God: that they were by nature rebels against His government; and that they must repent of their sins, and be reconciled to God through Christ. I cannot say that I had a very distinct notion of what was required of me, but one thing I did know well: I was wretched and had no means of making myself otherwise.
I consulted a good old colored man named Charles Lawson, and in tones of holy affection he told me to pray, and to "cast all my care upon God." This I sought to do; and though for weeks I was a poor, broken-hearted mourner, traveling through doubts and fears, I finally found my burden lightened, and my heart relieved. I loved all mankind, slaveholders not excepted, though I abhorred slavery more than ever. I saw the world in a new light, and my great concern was to have everybody converted. My desire to learn increased, and especially, did I want a thorough acquaintance with the contents of the Bible.[2]
His motto was "Right is of no sex - Truth is of no color - God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren."
Douglass also wrote, "I loved all mankind, slaveholder not excepted, though I abhorred slavery more than ever. I saw the world in a new light ... I gathered scattered pages of the Bible from the filthy street gutters, and washed and dried them, that ... I might get a word or two of wisdom from them."
Quotes
- "A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box." (15 November 1867) [3]
See also
References
- ↑ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,p. 49, "Every opportunity I got, I used to read this book."
- ↑ Douglass, Frederick (1882); The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: From 1817–1882. 3rd edition by John Lobb. Christian Age Office. p. 63.
- ↑ Williamsport: Boomtown on the Susquehanna