frederick douglass

     

When the GOP convened in 1888, he became the 1st black man to earn a vote for president at a major party convention

Trivia about frederick douglass

  • In an 1845 autobiography, he wrote, "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man"
  • This orator was born in 1817 in Tuckahoe, Maryland, the son of slave Harriet Bailey
  • In 1877 this orator was appointed marshal for the District of Columbia
  • In 1863 Lincoln met with this orator who urged full equality for black troops
  • This orator & abolitionist was U.S. minister to Haiti 1889-1891
  • In 1889 this great orator & former slave became the U.S. minister to Haiti
  • This abolitionist & publisher of "The North Star" ran a station of the Underground Railroad in Rochester
  • This orator spoke publicly of his days as a slave to an 1841 anti-slavery meeting in Nantucket
  • This famed orator who was born a slave wrote the 1855 memoir "My Bondage And My Freedom"
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) The Newseum has issue 1 of "The North Star", named for what slaves followed to freedom; in one article, this man said he'd been "shrouded in the midnight ignorance of that infernal system of slavery"
  • In 1881 this orator & former slave became Recorder of Deeds for Washington, D.C.
  • This runaway slave published his autobiography, "My Bondage, My Freedom", in 1855
  • 2008's "Giants" pairs Lincoln with this man who first visited him in 1863 to discuss treatment of black soldiers
  • Born a slave around 1818, he bought a home in Washington, D.C. in 1877 & expanded it to 21 rooms
  • The publisher of such abolitionist papers as North Star & New National Era, he later became a marshall in D.C.
  • In 1872 Victoria Woodhull chose this orator & former slave to be her running mate
  • Northern readers got the lowdown on slavery in 1845's "Narrative of the Life of" this former slave & orator
  • Born into slavery around 1818, this great orator helped recruit his fellow African-Americans for the Union army
  • When Victoria Woodhull ran for president in 1872, she chose this man, a former slave, as her running mate
  • A former slave, this man seen here was the most prominent African-American spokesman of the 1800s

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