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Frederick Douglass fue un escritor, editor y orador abolicionista estadounidense, famoso como reformador social. Fue conocido como El Sabio de Anacostia o El León de Anacostia, y es uno de los escritores afroamericanos más importantes de su época y de la historia de los Estados Unidos.
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Autores Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher...
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Fuente: Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass' Civil War:...
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398 quotes from Frederick Douglass: 'Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.', 'It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.', and 'I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.'.
248 Copy quote. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
Frases, citas y aforismos de Frederick Douglass. 9 en español. “Sin lucha, no hay progreso.” Frederick Douglass. Comparte Tweet. Filtra por tema. blancos (1) desigualdad (1) educación (1) esclavitud (1) fortaleza (1) luchar (1) moral (1) naciones (1) negros (1) niños (1)
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Frederick Douglass was born into slaveryin or around 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. Douglass himself was never sure of his exact birth date. His mother was an enslaved Black womenand his father was white and of European descent. He was actually born Frederick Bailey (his mother’s name), and took the name Douglass only after he escaped. His full n...
After several failed attempts at escape, Douglass finally left Covey’s farm in 1838, first boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland. From there he traveled through Delaware, another slave state, before arriving in New Yorkand the safe house of abolitionist David Ruggles. Once settled in New York, he sent for Anna Murray, a free Black woman from...
After their marriage, the young couple moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where they met Nathan and Mary Johnson, a married couple who were born “free persons of color.” It was the Johnsons who inspired the couple to take the surname Douglass, after the character in the Sir Walter Scott poem, “The Lady of the Lake.” In New Bedford, Douglass began...
Two years later, Douglass published the first and most famous of his autobiographies, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. (He also authored My Bondage and My Freedom and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass). In it Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, he wrote: “From my earliest recollection, I date the entertain...
Later that same year, Douglass would travel to Ireland and Great Britain. At the time, the former country was just entering the early stages of the Irish Potato Famine, or the Great Hunger. While overseas, he was impressed by the relative freedom he had as a man of color, compared to what he had experienced in the United States. During his time in ...
When he returned to the United States in 1847, Douglass began publishing his own abolitionist newsletter, the North Star. He also became involved in the movement for women’s rights. He was the only African American to attend the Seneca Falls Convention, a gathering of women’s rights activists in New York, in 1848. He spoke forcefully during the mee...
In 1852, he delivered another of his more famous speeches, one that later came to be called “What to a slave is the 4th of July?” In one section of the speech, Douglass noted, “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is t...
During the brutal conflict that divided the still-young United States, Douglass continued to speak and worked tirelessly for the end of slavery and the right of newly freed Black Americans to vote. Although he supported President Abraham Lincoln in the early years of the Civil War, Douglass fell into disagreement with the politician after the Emanc...
In 1877, Douglass met with Thomas Auld, the man who once “owned” him, and the two reportedly reconciled. Douglass’ wife Anna died in 1882, and he married white activist Helen Pitts in 1884. In 1888, he became the first African American to receive a vote for President of the United States, during the Republican National Convention. Ultimately, thoug...
Frederick Douglas, PBS.org. Frederick Douglas, National Parks Service, nps.gov. Frederick Douglas, 1818-1895, Documenting the South, University of North Carolina, docsouth.unc.edu. Frederick Douglass Quotes, brainyquote.com. “Reception Speech. At Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England, May 12, 1846.” USF.edu. “What to the slave is the 4th of July?” T...
"No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lighting scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins."
“The whisper that my master was my father, may or may not be true; and, true or false, it is of but little consequence to my purpose whilst the fact remains, in all its glaring odiousness, that slaveholders have ordained, and by law established, that the children of slave women shall in all cases follow the condition of their mothers; and this i...
