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4 days ago · Frederick Douglass. During the last three decades of legal slavery in America, from the early 1830s to the end of the Civil War in 1865, African American writers perfected one of the nation’s first truly indigenous genres of written literature: the North American slave narrative.
1 day ago · The movement to abolish slavery in the mid-1800s provided a way for disenfranchised black men and women, such as the eloquent Frederick Douglass and Maria Stewart, as well as white women, to speak and organize publically.
3 days ago · New Bedford, Mass. is home to a significant piece of abolitionism history. The Nathan and Polly Johnson house was an underground railroad site and the first home to Frederick Douglass as a freed man
13 hours ago · By Brian Campbell Rochester. PUBLISHED 10:21 AM ET Jul. 25, 2024. All past issues of "The Frederick Douglass Voice," one of the longest-running Black newspapers in New York, are now available digitally. These papers are now viewable and available to the public as part of the Howard Wilson Coles Collection, housed by the Rochester Museum ...
1 day ago · This is the perfect time to read the entirety of Frederick Douglass’s famous speech, and not merely because of the date on the calendar. Dave Zirin.
2 days ago · July 24th, 2024. Very low, one-way fares from ROC start at $62. View Full Press Release (PDF) As part of the largest expansion in company history, Avelo Airlines continues its growth in Rochester today with the airline’s announcement of new exclusive nonstop service this fall between Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport (ROC) and Concord-Padgett Regional Airport (USA ...
2 days ago · The new tunnels will be named after Frederick Douglass, an African-American slave and Maryland native who escaped to freedom by boarding a train in Baltimore in 1838, and went on to become a leading abolitionist and social reformer.
