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On the Life of Black Abolitionist Anna Murray Douglass

November 29, 2018December 7, 2018 Leigh Fought Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. “She drew around herself a certain reserve,” Rosetta

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Frederick Douglass and the United States Constitution

November 28, 2018December 3, 2018 Noelle Trent civil rights, Frederick Douglass Forum, Gender, race

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. The United States Constitution has a powerful and

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Frederick Douglass’s Vision of America

November 27, 2018December 3, 2018 Neil Roberts black lives matter, Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. Fellow Citizens: I’m worried. Very worried. But don’t

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Frederick Douglass and Fugitivity

November 26, 2018December 3, 2018 Manisha Sinha Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum, fugitivity, Resistance, slavery

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. If I had to choose a single

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Weathering the Transatlantic Slave Trade’s Final Odysseys

November 16, 2018November 20, 2018 Mary E. Hicks slave trade, slavery, South Carolina

The transatlantic slave trade, which endured for over 400 years, stitched together disparate, and as Sharla Fett reminds us, often

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