How To Use Douglass In A Sentence
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On the other hand, a million times the personal merit of Reeves combined with his own could have availed Douglass absolutely nothing in the United States, legal and social proscript that he was, with public opinion generally on the side of the laws and usages against him.
West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
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Earlier this afternoon, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. delivered a stirring commentary on NPR's All Things Considered (originally written for TheRoot. com) in which he compared today to the day after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and shared the reaction of Frederick Douglass,
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The Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, By Himself, published in 1845, is another example I cited -- "passionate, demanding, denunciatory, self-analytical: 'autobiographies' now differed from people's 'memoirs,' as their authors challenged themselves and the world to be honest about their own lives.
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LOA encompasses African-American literature from slave narratives to the essays of intellectuals like Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois and the fiction of Richard Wright.
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Mr. ATKINSON: Well, Edward Douglass White was moved to the chief justiceship by President Taft.
Leaving the Bench: Supreme Court Justices at the End
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By joining Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Richard Wright in the act of literary testimony, Malcolm became part of the most essential genre of African-American literature.
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But even a rhetorical commitment to sending back the money was influential, not least in the political development of Frederick Douglass, as we shall see.
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Imitating the canting voice of a hypocritical preacher, Douglass then gave a several-paragraph sermon based on the principle that obedience to the slavemaster is obedience to God.
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As for Ester, she prayed, in her clothes-press, thankfully for Dr. Douglass, more hopefully for Sadie, and knew not that a corner of the poor little letter which had slipped from Julia's hand and floated down the stream one summer morning, thereby causing her such a miserable, _miserable_ day, was lying at that moment in Dr. Douglass 'note-book, counted as the most precious of all his precious bits of paper.
Ester Ried
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a kind of retractable blade illegal in the city - near the corner of Douglass and Bond streets.
NY Post: News
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Of all the cruel practices of slavery, Douglass considers the fate of his grandmother most unacceptable.
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Example: In conclusion, Frederick Douglass was, as we have seen, a pioneer in American education, proving that education was a major force for social change with regard to slavery.
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His readings of Poe and Douglass are more hermetically isolated.
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One can say that, of all early African American authors, Phillis Wheatley - along with Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass - would be the most in danger of being studied to a fare-thee-well.
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While Frederick Douglass has become a restaurant magnet, much of Lenox, which is a far-grander European-style avenue, remains largely empty.
Harlem Draws a Restaurant Crowd
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North , Douglass. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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North , Douglass. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance.
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When Douglass makes his first escape attempt, he plans a route on the Chesapeake Bay.
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Unlike Douglass and Jacobs, Truth did not spend years living as a fugitive slave, and she had the additional legal protection of being officially emancipated by the state within months of her escape.
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We have already seen how deeply young Douglass was impressed with Mr. Garrison's writings in The Liberator, and it can be easily inferred that the word "antislavery" should have stirred him as no other word in the language of freedom.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), who escaped from slavery, became an author and publisher and was internationally known for his instrumental role in the abolitionist movement.
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where people are learning about the African-American leader Frederick Douglass, who was born a slave in 1818, but escaped to become a leading abolitionist.
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Like Douglass's burlesques, Lee uses humor as a tactical means of renovating national society.
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I find no record of any other contributions so large as that which purchased freedom for Douglass, and that which, as we shall see, soon enabled him to publish a newspaper, whose name furnishes a title for our next chapter.
Frederick Douglass The Colored Orator.
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Even worse, the Inaugural was a "double-tongued" address, for it renounced Lincoln's campaign promise of working toward the "ultimate extinction" of slavery, Douglass said.
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On almost every page there's a picture that will give readers pause, whether it's a shot of the rolling-pin-like device used to code Confederate communications or an 1850 daguerreotype of Frederick Douglass at a gathering of abolitionists and escaped slaves. $40, us.dk.com
Salute to History
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Accompanied by motorcade, a vintage 1957 bus drove Parks across the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, named for the famed slavery abolitionist leader, to the U.S. Capitol.
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Example: In addition to being an educational pioneer, Frederick Douglass provides an interesting case study for masculinity in the American South.
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Hugh Auld easily succeeded in getting young Douglass apprenticed to a calker, in the extensive ship-yards of William Gardiner, on Fell's Point.
Frederick Douglass
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Douglass's new friends advised him to go to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where whaling fleets were fitted out, and where he might hope to find work at his trade of ship-calker.
Frederick Douglass
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Instead, Douglass went on to argue, the "appeal for impartial suffrage" must address itself "to the darkest, coldest, and flintiest side of the human heart" and must "wring righteousness from the unfeeling calculations of human selfishness.
Rhetoric of Freedom
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Douglass's book was entitled Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself – the latter part of which title necessitated the interrogation and, ultimately, the formal endorsement of white citizens including abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and lawyer Wendell Phillips.
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From this, and from the many groans and sighs that are reported of the boy (who still struggled to keep reading, an activity feared and despised by his father, as it was by the owner of Frederick Douglass), we receive a prefiguration of the politician who declared in 1856, “I used to be a slave.”
Lincoln’s Emancipation
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Auld, Hugh, apprentices Douglass to a ship-calker, 51; sells Douglass his own time, 55; sells Douglass into freedom, 113.
Frederick Douglass
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LOA encompasses African-American literature from slave narratives to the essays of intellectuals like Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois and the fiction of Richard Wright.
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Viewing the history of American Blacks' liberation struggle, it is Frederick Douglass' Legitimate Reform Strategy that has represented the right way to American Blacks' liberation.
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Douglass C. North is a well - known American economist, the winner of the Nobel Prize on economy.
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Later in his career, Douglass became a vocal opponent of minstrel humor, performed either by blacks or whites.
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By joining Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Richard Wright in the act of literary testimony, Malcolm became part of the most essential genre of African-American literature.
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After noting the odd inconsequence of J. Sutter, the young, black, journalist-for-hire protagonist of John Henry Days — inconsequence, that is, compared to the folk hero of the title, and “the prophetic thunders and righteous wrath of Frederick Douglass and W.E. B.
The Hamptons Renaissance
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Through his listening to secular storytelling, religious preaching, slave songs, and spirituals, Douglass became educated in the oral tradition of slave culture.
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Officer Alex Bakalis first locked up the suspect after spotting him carrying a gravity knife - a kind of retractable blade illegal in the city - near the corner of Douglass and Bond streets.
NY Post: News
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Example: In conclusion, Frederick Douglass was, as we have seen, a pioneer in American education, proving that education was a major force for social change with regard to slavery.
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In 1838, while a ship caulker's apprentice, Douglass acquired free seaman papers and escaped to New York City.
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Douglass was the acknowdedged black leader of his time.
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Douglass was made under this head in the daily papers; his name glided as often -- this week from Chicago, next {14} week from Boston -- over the lightning wires, as the name of any other man, of whatever note.
My Bondage and My Freedom
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Captain Auld considers Douglass to have been spoiled by life in the city.
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Tales of her aggressive platform style, of her challenge to Frederick Douglass on the issue of violence against slavery ("Frederick!
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In a bit of jiujutsu, Douglass than uses the video record from a recent AARP forum where, contra Drudge, Obama stresses that "nobody is trying to change what works in the system.
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Our revered ancestor Frederick Douglass said, "Power concedes nothing without demand.
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Nearby is a photograph of Sojourner Truth, a female contemporary of Douglass who campaigned fearlessly against slavery and for women's rights.
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Before they got out of the cab Douglass turned to him, his expression earnest at last.
The Scandal of the Season
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MEMPHIS, TN -- The watt busters are patrolling Douglass High School in Memphis and they're handing out tickets.
Eyewitness News
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In a communication from Dr. Douglass, of Chester district, S. C., his correspondent, Mr. McKeown, considers the root too drastic as a purge; he adds that the powdered root, mixed with equal parts of resin, acts as a powerful caustic, and is used by farriers for escharotic purposes.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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Then it occurred to me how much finer a spectacle my ebony friend would make; how well his six feet of manly sinew would grace those pulpit stairs; how eloquently the reverend gentleman might expatiate on the burning sin of shrouding the light of such an intellect in the mists of niggerdom, only to see it snuffed out in darkness; how he might enlarge on what the black could do in elevating his race, either as "cullud" assistant to "Brother Pease" at the Five-Points, or as co-laborer with Fred Douglass at abolition conventions, or, if that didn't _pay_, how, put into the minstrel business, he might run the white "troupes" off the track, and yield a liberal revenue to the "Cause of Freedom.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
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I told Hachin that you were meeting me and that we wanted to visit Lori Douglass.
REVELATIONS
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One of the primary means of Douglass's early success as an abolitionist lecturer was his skill as a mimic - in particular, his burlesques of slaveholding consciousness.
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This fascinating anthology of documents—letters, diary entries, speeches, poems, political manifestoes—by both famous Americans including Lincoln, Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Robert E. Lee and forgotten ones moves chronologically through 1861, providing many firsthand accounts of that fateful, chaotic year.
Twelve Months of Reading
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Msuwa, a village situated in a populous district, having in its vicinity no less than five other villages, each fortified by stakes and thorny abattis, with as much fierce independence as if their petty lords were so many Percys and Douglasses.
How I Found Livingstone
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The story centres on Sarah Wode-Douglass, a poetry editor enticed to steaming 1970s Kuala Lumpur by a literary roué who she suspects is implicated in her mother's death.
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Roger D. Landon, attorney for Douglass, contends Gooding's failure to use a fluoroscope was a key factor in Neel's death.
Undefined
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Within one year, Douglass earns the wages of the most experienced calkers, at times bringing in nine dollars per week.
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This idea didn't sit well with leaders like Frederick Douglass, who considered colonization to be "a safety valve...for white racism.
