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Frederick Douglass

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What does Frederick Douglass mean?

noun

  1. 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.
Anna Howard Shaw; Elizabeth Garver JordanThe Story of a PioneerProject Gutenberg ebook #354
Conwell tells, too, of meeting Frederick Douglass, the colored orator, in that little cottage in the hills.
Russell H. ConwellAcres of Diamonds: Our Every-day OpportunitiesProject Gutenberg ebook #368
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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 DouglassCollected Articles of Frederick DouglassProject Gutenberg ebook #99
Frederick Douglass is Marshal of the District of Columbia.
Henry Ossian FlipperHenry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military AcademyProject Gutenberg ebook #2448
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.
VariousThe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial IssueProject Gutenberg ebook #206