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. When he returned to the United States in , Douglass began publishing his own abolitionist newsletter, the North Star.
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 the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
For the 24th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation , in , Douglass delivered a rousing address in Washington, D. 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 would fall into disagreement with the politician after the Emancipation Proclamation of , which effectively ended the practice of slavery.
Constitution which, respectively, outlawed slavery, granted formerly enslaved people citizenship and equal protection under the law, and protected all citizens from racial discrimination in voting , Douglass was asked to speak at the dedication of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.
In the post-war Reconstruction era, Douglass served in many official positions in government, including as an ambassador to the Dominican Republic, thereby becoming the first Black man to hold high office. In the presidential election, he supported the candidacy of former Union general Ulysses S. Grant , who promised to take a hard line against white supremacist-led insurgencies in the post-war South.
Grant notably also oversaw passage of the Civil Rights Act of , which was designed to suppress the growing Ku Klux Klan movement. Ultimately, though, Benjamin Harrison received the party nomination. Douglass remained an active speaker, writer and activist until his death in Frederick Douglas, PBS. Frederick Douglas, National Parks Service, nps.
Frederick Douglass Quotes, brainyquote. Graham, D. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. He stands as the most influential civil and As Frederick Douglass approached the bed of Thomas Auld, tears came to his eyes.
Douglass welcomed the Civil War in as a moral crusade to eradicate the evil of slavery. During the war he labored as a fierce propagandist of the Union cause and emancipation, as a recruiter of black troops, and on two occasions as an advisor to President Abraham Lincoln. Douglass made a major contribution to the intellectual tradition of millennial nationalism, the outlook from which many Americans, North and South, interpreted the Civil War.
During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age Douglass's leadership became less activist and more emblematic. He traveled and lectured widely on racial issues, but his most popular topic was "Self-Made Men. Douglass had five children by his first wife Anna Murray, a free black woman from Baltimore who followed him out of slavery in Less than two years after Anna died in , the year-old Douglass married Helen Pitts, his white former secretary, an event of considerable controversy.
Thus by birth and by his two marriages, Douglass is one of the South's most famous examples of the region's mixed racial heritage. Douglass never lost a sense of attachment to the South. He often referred to Maryland as his "own dear native soil. Although Douglass was born into slavery and his actual birth date is unknown, he chose to commemorate his birthday on February Douglass was the most photographed American of the 19th century, sitting for more portraits than even Abraham Lincoln.
Douglass intentionally sought out the cameras, believing that photography was an important tool for achieving civil rights because it offered a way to portray African Americans fairly and accurately.
Frederick Douglass chose his name from a poem. Douglass was born with the name Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. Douglass became a free man thanks to help from European allies.
While abroad, he went on a speaking tour and his British supporters were so moved, they collected funds to purchase his freedom in His autobiographies remain some of the most important and widely read accounts of slavery today.
During the Civil War, Douglass passionately helped enlist free black men to fight in the Union Army , convinced it would help African Americans win freedom, respect and full citizenship. Douglass also helped improve conditions for the soldiers, meeting with Lincoln on issues such as equal pay and merit-based promotions, which African American soldiers eventually received. Douglass was the first African American to receive a vote for president at a major political party convention.
The vote came from the Kentucky delegation during the Republican National Convention of
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