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Douglass

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Doug·lass  (dgls), Frederick 1817-1895.
American abolitionist and journalist who escaped from slavery (1838) and became an influential lecturer in the North and abroad. He wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) and cofounded and edited the North Star (1847-1860), an abolitionist newspaper.
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Noun1.DouglassDouglass - United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
Frederick Douglass


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DOUGLASS to address the convention: He came forward to the platform with a hesitancy and embar- rassment, necessarily the attendants of a sensitive mind in such a novel position.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context
Douglass was travelling in the state of Pennsylvania, and was forced, on account of his colour, to ride in the baggage-car, in spite of the fact that he had paid the same price for his passage that the other passengers had paid.
Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. View in context
The crowd filed up the aisles: the aged and needy postmaster, who had seen better days; the mayor and his wife -- for they had a mayor there, among other unnecessaries; the justice of the peace; the widow Douglass, fair, smart, and forty, a generous, good-hearted soul and well-to-do, her hill mansion the only palace in the town, and the most hospitable and much the most lavish in the matter of festivities that St.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
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