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Frederick Douglass
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What does Frederick Douglass mean?
noun
- United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
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Frederick Douglass, however, took the floor in defense of Mrs. Stanton's motion, a service we suffragists never forgot.
Conwell tells, too, of meeting Frederick Douglass, the colored orator, in that little cottage in the hills.
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I consented, and he called me by my present name—the one by which I have been known for three and forty years—Frederick Douglass.
Frederick Douglass is Marshal of the District of Columbia.
This was true, notwithstanding the protests and fervent oratory of such strong race leaders as Frederick Douglass, B. K. Bruce, John R. Lynch, P. B. S. Pinchback, and John M. Langston, with a host of others.